By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Ahead of the Men’s Hockey World Cup , Odisha on Monday drawn the attention of Union Civil Aviation Ministry with State Chief Secretary Suresh Mohapatra writing to Union MoCA Secretary Rajiv Bansal requesting for enhancement of Flight connectivity to VSS in Jharsuguda and Rourkela(Sundargarh) Airports.
“I would like to inform that the up coming Men’s World Cup-2023 is scheduled to be held from January 13 to 29, 2023 at Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, we are extremely thankful for the steps being taken at your end to make the Rourkela Airport operational at the earliest. As an alternate to Rourkela, the VSS Airport at Jharsuguda is the nearest domestic Airport , having connectvity to cities like Kolkata, Raipur, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Bhubaneswar. Further , Jharsuguda city well connected with Rourkela via road as well as railways, thus the access to Rourkela city will be made easier if the air connectivity to Jharsuguda enhanced,’” Chief Secretary Mohapatra wrote.
Now it is a matter of concern too that Spice Jet is cancelling scheduled flights from cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata, which badly affects the connectivity to the State and to the utmost dissatisfaction of general public at large, Mohapatra wrote requesting enhancement of flights to both the cities during the month of January , 2023 in view of the World Cup.
