Speed up unfinished work at Patna airport terminal, Centre tells AAI

The Centre has advised the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to complete all unfinished work of the new integrated terminal building of Patna’s Jayprakash Narayan International (JPNI) Airport as early as possible, said officials on Sunday.

- Ruchir Kumar

The directive came in light of the government earning public wrath for showing undue haste in its inauguration, with much work pending, in an election year in Bihar.

The Centre’s two-member team led by Rubina Ali, joint secretary in the ministry of civil aviation (MoCA), and Nandita Bhat, member (planning) AAI, New Delhi, was in Patna on July 16 to take stock of the unfinished work at the airport terminal, a day after Hindustan Times reported (PMO takes cognizance of slipshod work at Patna’s new terminal) in its Patna edition on July 15, listing a host of unfinished work, and asocial media post on X, referring to the haste in the inaugu-

THE GOVERNMENT HAS EARNED PEOPLE'S WRATH FOR SHOWING UNDUE HASTE IN ITS INAUGURATION

ration of the new terminal building in election year in Bihar. PM Modi had inaugurated the new terminal on May 29 and the building was operationalised on June 3, despite much work pending.