Letter to BS: New airport in Sikkim's Pakyong will boost tourism

The opening of a new airport is highly commendable but it is not as significant a feat as compared to the massive aviation infrastructure growth elsewhere in the world

It was good to note the opening of India's 100th airport at Pakyong, with Sikkim being the last of the Indian states to be connected through an airport. It is ironical that it took successive governments such a long time to open a full fledged airport in Sikkim after it joined Indian Union in 1975. The opening of a new airport will certainly boost the tourism sector as well as related industries. The dependence on the Bagdogra airport to travel to Sikkim by air will be reduced and it will also boost the Ministry of Civil Aviation's UDAAN scheme. Now