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Durai Vaiko, MDMK member of Parliament from the Tiruchi Lok Sabha constituency, and L.K. Sudhish, DMDK member of the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu, personally urged Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu to expedite the development works at the Tiruchi and Vellore airports and bring them into use immediately. In this regard, both of them separately met the Union Minister on Friday and submitted petitions requesting the same.
In the petition submitted by Durai Vaiko, it is stated: ‘Ninety percent of the lands to be acquired for the Tiruchirappalli international airport expansion project have already been handed over. The remaining 7.67 acres of land should be acquired quickly, a bridge should be built without affecting the flow of the Uyyakondan canal, and funds for the runway extension works should be allocated immediately. Furthermore, the 214 houses on Pattathammal Street in the village, which were dumped there for the airport expansion, and the Pachanachi Amman temple should be exempted from acquisition, and the people’s livelihoods and religious sentiments should be protected,’ he has requested.
In the petition submitted by L.K. Sudheesh regarding the operation of Vellore airport, it states, “At Vellore airport, which has been developed over an area of 97.98 acres under the second phase of the UDAN scheme, the inspection work by the Director General of Civil Aviation has been completed. At present, only the final security clearance from the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is pending.

Considering the welfare of the people of Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Ranipet, and northern Tamil Nadu, who have been waiting for the past 9 years, he has requested that the BCAS security clearance and DGCA license be issued expeditiously and that action be taken to immediately commence flight services.
