BY TC News Desk
Agartala, 6th July 2024: Transport minister Sushanta Chowdhury wrote a letter to the union minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Raimohan Naidu on Saturday apprising for sanctioning of a new Regional Office of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) at Agartala.
In the letter, Chowdhury wrote “It is reliably learnt that 17(seventeen) new offices of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) will be established across the country shortly. Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport in Agartala, Tripura, is the second busiest airport in the entire North-east of India after Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport, Guwahati. The Annual traffic being catered to by the MBB Airport is about 13 lakhs.”
“The new Terminal Building of the MBB Airport, which was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India on 4th January 2022, is a modern and international category Terminal Building. Infrastructure for International flight operations between Agartala and Chittagong (Bangladesh) has been made and ready for inauguration after getting nod from the Ministry.”
“All Airlines, Business establishment, Contractors and Fuel Pump working in the MBB Airport premises require clearance/pass from the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). However, there is no office of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in the State of Tripura so far”, he added.
Minister urged union minister for considering the above circumstances and requested to kindly sanction a new Regional Office of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) at Agartala at the earliest.
