NEW DELHI, April 11 � Minister of State for DoNER, Dr Jitendra Singh has announced that a new direct daily flight from Delhi to Dimapur via Kolkata and back would start on April 15. He added that another daily Kolkata-Silchar-Kolkata flight has resumed services from last month.
Dr Singh was addressing the inaugural session of 64th Plenary Meeting of North Eastern Council (NEC) here yesterday.
He mentioned that three hangars had been constructed and made functional by the Airport Authority of India at Guwahati Airport with NEC support.
The plenary meeting was attended by Governors and Chief Ministers of Northeastern States, senior officers of State Governments, Union Ministries and other Central government organisations.
Elaborating on some of the innovative initiatives taken during the last few months, Dr Singh referred to a unique practice of holding the Ministry of DoNER�s camp office by rotation in each of the eight Northeastern States starting from February this year which has been designated as �DoNER at Doorstep� (DAD).
