Ishwardi Airport is opening soon

Ishwardi representative After being closed for 17 years, Ishwardi Airport is finally being opened this month. The government is going to take this decision to facilitate the communication system of Ishwardi with Dhaka after the foundation of Rooppur nuclear power project is laid.

Meanwhile, some officials of the Civil Aviation Authority have come to Ishwardi and started the work of opening the airport. It was initially rumored to launch by October 13. But due to some technical problems, it was later decided that the flights will start by October 30. A Grameenphone tower has been ordered to be removed after it fell in the middle of the airport's approach road.

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Local Member of Parliament Shamsur Rahman Sharif Dilu said that the government has decided to open the airport this October. It is expected that due to its commissioning, the travel of the experts of Rooppur Nuclear Power Project will be facilitated as well as the investment in Ishwardi EPZ will also increase. Shamsur Rahman Sharif Dilu MP also said that the importance of Ishwardi has increased after the current government came to power. There has been a lot of investment in EPZ. He said that the investment in EPZ will increase if Ishwardi Airport is opened.

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It is to be noted that in 1960, the initial work of Ishwardi Airport started on 412 acres of land. At that time, after the construction of the runway at the cost of 22 lakh taka, Dakota aircraft started operating. During the erstwhile Pakistan era, Ishwardi Airport had two flights every morning and afternoon. After independence it decreased and continued only in the morning. After that an airport was established near Ishwardi as Rajshahi is a divisional city. Due to which the flights are reduced to one day a week. After showing losses, air traffic from Ishwardi was announced to be suspended indefinitely on November 3, 1996. At that time, the number of passengers was less, but there was no loss due to the transportation of a lot of goods, the locals complained.