24 acres given to AAI for Bagdogra night landing facility

To facilitate tourism in north Bengal, the state government has given 24 acres of land to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) for upgradation of night landing facilities at Bagdogra airport.
"We have given 24 acres of land free of cost to AAI for upgradation of night landing facilities at Bagdogra," West Bengal Tourism Minister Gautam Deb told reporters here today.
"CAT-II night landing system will be installed at Bagdogra airport," Deb said, adding that this would facilitate tourism in north Bengal.
He said that AAI authorities had assured that the installation would be completed by January, 2018.
With modern night landing facilities at Bagdogra, tourist arrivals for different north Bengal destinations, including the Darjeeling Hills and forests of Dooars, in the foothills would increase manifold, Deb said.

The minister said that a convention centre and an upmarket resort was also coming up on a five-acre facility near Bagdogra for tourists.
Apart from this, development of new tourism destinations in the region along with upgradation of the existing ones would also attract tourists from different parts of the country and also help increase foreign tourist arrivals, he said.