Bamrauli Airport Allahabad: Ahead of Kumbh Mela 2019, brand new passenger terminal, more aircraft bays added; PM Modi to inaugurate

Bamrauli Airport Allahabad:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new terminal of the Bamrauli Airport in Allahabad on Sunday. The new terminal has been built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to meet the demand of increasing air travel in Allahabad and ahead of the ‘Ardh Kumbh Mela’ to be held in January 2019. The terminal has been built in an unprecedented time of 11 months.

The Bamrauli terminal (code IXD) has a peak hour capacity of 300 passengers. It has been built at an estimated cost of Rs 164 crore. The area of the airport terminal is 6700 square metre. 

"The launch of the new airport at Holy Triveni site in the historical city of  Prayagraj is a gift to millions of pilgrims coming to the Ardh Kumbh 2019. This new chapter will play an important role in the future for the economic, cultural and spiritual progress of the Prayagraj," sadi the AAI.

The airport will boost the connectivity under PM Modi's ambitious regional connectivity scheme UDAN. The Bamrauli terminal will have flight connectivity to Dehradun, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Patna, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Nagpur, Bhopal, Indore, Pune, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

The UDAN scheme has boosted regional air connectivity.

"Since the launch of the scheme 58%, 69% & 62% of RCS routes have been operationalised in the Northern, Western & Southern regions of the country, respectively," the AAI has said.

प्रयागराज में नव-निर्मित बमरौली हवाई अड्डा परिसर, जिसका उद्घाटन प्रधानमंत्री @narendramodiजी द्वारा किया जाएगा, अत्याधुनिक सुविधाओं से सुसज्जित है तथा व्यस्ततम समय में 300 यात्रियों को संचालित करने हेतु पर्याप्त है। पूरा वीडियो देखें - https://t.co/LEPlIkp2MS pic.twitter.com/c5SlNM1Uzy

— Airports Authority of India (@AAI_Official) December 15, 2018

Besides the airport, PM Modi is also expected to roll out the 900th coach of Humsafar express at Rae Bareli's Modern Rail Coach Factory (RCF).