Sep 24, 2018 12:15:18 (IST)
PM Modi after inaugurating Sikkim airport:
- You also know well. Six decades back a small plane had flown from here. You had to wait for six decades for the airport.
- For the past four years, a government minister visits the north-east. You are witnessing the result of this effort.
- A lot of work is happening in the northeast for the first time since independence. In some places airports, railways, and even electricity reached for the first time.
- After independence till 2014, there were 65 airports, But last year alone, 9 airports became operational.