The much-touted international airport project, which CM Bhagwant Mann had said will be named after Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha, would initially begin with an interim terminal which is being built to handle just one domestic flight (at one point of time) with a maximum of 300 passengers.
After the remaining work stalled for almost eight months, the work of building the much-awaited and much-delayed international airport coming up at the Air Force Station in Halwara, which is one of the oldest frontline airbases of the Indian Air Force (IAF), close to Ludhiana, finally resumed on Mon