“Despite the challenges posed by the serious ongoing conflict, we have ensured that about 22,500 citizens have returned home safely,” S Jaishankar said in the parliament.
Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia said Madurai MP Su Venkatesan's insistence on according Madurai airport international status was incomprehensible
"When they were in power, they did not do anything for the Jewar airport plan. The project was visioned two decades ago when Rajnath Singh Ji was the Chief Minister, so if anyone is to be credited other than Prime Minister and Yogi ji, then it should be Rajnath Singh", said Scindia.
Emphasising his government's commitment to finish infrastructure projects on time, PM Modi stated that earlier, costs kept on escalating while work remained pending. He added that the previous Samajwadi Party government in UP had written to the Centre asking to stop the proposed airport.
In 2017, the CISF and Bureau for Civil Aviation Security had decided to do away with humiliating practice across airports asking passengers with disability to remove prosthetic limbs for X-ray screening.