Durgapur, May 22 -- As the West Bengal Assembly poll season soared in April, the state's first greenfield private airport in Andal, Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport (KNIA), witnessed an unprecedented VVIP rush for landing and take off, thereby earning crores of rupees as parking fees. The Air Traffic Controller (ATC) had to work overtime to handle the busy schedule.
Even on Thursday, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari arrived in Andal in a chartered flight from Kolkata to preside over his first administrative meeting in Durgapur and in the evening flew to New Delhi from the same airport for his two-day tourAnju Madeka, President and CFO of Bengal Aerotropolis Private Limited (BAPL), the private operators and Kailsh Mondal, Director of KNI Airport, h...