New Delhi, August 09, 2021 (PPI-OT):Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation has asked the so-called Ladakh administration to hand over the identified 9.4 acres of land to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) for the purpose of establishing new civil enclave for flight operations.

India has unilaterally made Ladakh region as Union Territory, a part of Jammu and Kashmir, by abrogating Article 370 on August 5, 2019. The move is seen by experts as another attempt to illegally integrate this part of IIOJK region with India.

Last week, while answering a written question on the government’s proposal to operate small flights to Kargil and Nubra in Ladakh and their feasibility, Minister of State (MoS) for Civil Aviation General VK Singh (retired), had said the Kargil airport was handed over to the Indian Air Force in 2003.

“Later, on the request of the erstwhile state government, the Airport Authority of India engaged International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to explore the feasibility of RNP-AR (required navigation performance-authorization required) procedures to access the airport,” he said. The MoCA launched the Regional Connectivity Scheme – Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (RCS-UDAN) on October 21, 2016, to stimulate regional air connectivity and making air travel affordable to the masses and noted that the scheme was market driven, Singh said.

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