Sabarimala airport in top priority list: Kerala Minister K. Radhakrishnan
Sabarimala airport in top priority list: Kerala Minister K. Radhakrishnan
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Thiruvananthapuram: Minister of Devaswom and Temples K. Radhakrishnan on Friday informed the Kerala Assembly that the government is going ahead with the proposed Sabarimala airport and would be completed in a time-bound manner. The Minister was replying for Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to a calling attention motion moved by N. Jayaraj on the topic about the proposed Sabarimala airport.

The Devaswom minister said, ‘The Cheruvally rubber estate has been selected as the place for the proposed airport. The feasibility study report has already been submitted to the Civil Aviation Ministry and they have sought more details and it would be given shortly. The state-run KSIDC has been appointed as the nodal agency for all the preliminary work, including taking over the land. This airport is in the high priority list of the government and it would be completed in a time bound manner.” 

Located in Kottayam district, the 2,263 acres Cheruvally estate lies about 48 kms from the famed Sabarimala temple. By the way, this proposed estate is owned by the Thiruvalla headquartered Believers Church and for long has been a contentious issue between the successive governments over the title of the estate. The state government has all along contested that this land originally belongs to it. The ownership over the estate has seen long-standing legal disagreement between the present owners and the state government and is in the Kerala High Court.

 

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