Shimla, May 10 -- Finally, after nearly 7 months air connectivity on the Delhi-Shimla and Shimla Dharamshala routes will resume from Sunday. The air connectivity on the Delhi-Shimla route will resume from Sunday while the Shimla-Dharamshala flights will start from Monday. This comes three days after the Himachal Pradesh High Court questioned the Union government over the exclusion of Shimla from the Regional Connectivity Scheme (UDAN) while observing that the hill state appeared to have been subjected to "step-motherly treatment" in the matter of air connectivity. So now the Alliance Air Aviation Limited is set to resume the Delhi-Shimla-Delhi flight service from May 10. The flights will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Apart from this, the Shimla-Dharamshala-Shimla flight service will commence from May 11, and will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The flight operations are expected to significantly improve intra-state and inter-state connectivity, while also giving an impetus to tourism and economic activities in Himachal Pradesh. Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said, "The state government is committed to promoting tourism and improving regional connectivity across Himachal Pradesh". On May 6, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia and Justice Bipin Chander Negi expressing concern over the underutilisation of the Shimla airport despite expenditure of Rs 116.70 crore under the Regional Connectivity Scheme, had remarked that the airport could not be allowed to become "a white elephant standing as a sore thumb lit up in the hills."...