Resume Imphal-Silchar flight: RS MP
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 10 2021:
Rajya Sabha MP Leishemba Sanajaoba today called on Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and urged him to help restore the Imphal-Silchar flight which was discontinued in 2013 .
During the meeting with Scindia, Sanajaoba said that resuming the said flight service will go a long way in easing the difficulties presently faced by students of Manipur and Assam especially students pursuing their medical and engineering courses.
After the flight service was suspended in 2013, students of Manipur and Barak Valley in Assam have been facing a number of inconveniences, said the Rajya Sabha MP.
Resumption of the flight service will go a long in addressing this problem, the MP highlighted during the meeting.
Significantly the All Assam Manipuri Students Union had on July 16 submitted a memorandum to Leishemba Sanajaoba to help resume the flight service between Imphal and Silchar.
The World Meetei Convention had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do the needful to resume the flight service between Imphal and Silchar.
WMC had also written along the same line to the Chief Ministers of Assam and Manipur.