Itanagar, Oct. 19 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Arunachal Pradesh next week and inaugurate the greenfield airport in Itanagar and a 600 MW Kameng hydro electric power project, officials said on Wednesday. A senior official of the state government said that the Prime Minister is likely to visit Arunachal Pradesh on October 27 or 28, though his tour schedule has not been finalised yet. “The PM would visit Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh next week to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for several projects,” said the official who didn’t wish to be named. He said that Chief Minister Pema Khandu recently met the Prime Minister in New Delhi and requested him to inaugurate the Donyi Polo greenfield airport in Itanagar, and the 600 MW capacity Kameng hydro electric power project. With a 2,300 metre runway, the greenfield airport would be the first in Arunachal Pradesh to have the capacity to land big aircraft. Spread over an area of 4,100 sq mt, the airport — the state’s third after Pasighat and Tezu airports — is equipped with all the modern facilities for the passengers, sources in the Airport Authority of India (AAI) said. The AAI undertook the INR...
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