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TEZU, 5 Aug:<\/strong> North Eastern Council (NEC) Secretary K Moses Chalai said that the Tezu airport in Lohit district, funded by the NEC, is a major investment in the district, and that the airport would immensely benefit the local population.<\/p>\n On Friday, the NEC secretary, accompanied by the councils’ Science & Technology Director Tanung Jamoh and the state’s Planning & Investment Joint Director Okep Tayeng, visited here to take stock of all the schemes funded by the NEC in the district.<\/p>\n Tezu airport director Amarkant L Sonawane informed the visiting team that all the major work for the airport have been completed and the remaining work will be completed by 31 October this year.<\/p>\n Currently, airliners Fly Big and Alliance Air are providing services, connecting Assam’s Dibrugarh and Guwahati with Tezu, the director said.<\/p>\n More flights to major cities in the Northeast are in the pipeline, he added.<\/p>\n Earlier, the team, accompanied by Lohit DC Marge Sora, inspected the terminal block, the apron area, and the ATC tower-cum-technical block of the airport.<\/p>\n Representatives of the TCIL, the executing agency, were also present during the visit.<\/p>\n The team also visited the Kendriya Vidyalaya here to inspect the playground rostrum and gallery which were funded by the NEC and completed last year.<\/p>\n Later, the NEC members interacted with the HoDs, during which the DC presented an overview of the district.<\/p>\n The NEC secretary said that the district is blessed with abundant plain land and good connectivity. “The district can benefit from agri-horti sector; hence, major emphasis should be given to double the income of the farmers,” he said. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TEZU, 5 Aug: North Eastern Council (NEC) Secretary K Moses Chalai said that the Tezu airport in Lohit district, funded by the NEC, is a major investment in the district, and that the airport would immensely benefit the local population. On Friday, the NEC secretary, accompanied by the councils’ Science & Technology Director Tanung Jamoh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}