In a major and long-overdue event, India’s first integrated heliport was opened on February 28 at Rohini in Delhi.
It is the first of four such planned in other regions of the country.
The heliport, opened by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, has the capacity to handle 150 passengers, and has 4 hangers, parking for 16 helicopters, and 9 parking bays.
Novi objekt bo deloval kot središče severnoindijskih mest, kot so Agra, Dehradun, Shimla, Mathura in Meerut.
Turizem in tudi medicinske misije so med tistimi, ki bodo dobile zagon z odprtjem teh heliportov. Prav tako naj bi zmanjšal zastoje na mednarodnem letališču Indira Gandhi v Delhiju.
Sekretar za civilno letalstvo RN Choubey je dejal, da je to del indijske nacionalne letalske politike – za povečanje regionalne povezljivosti.
