Pakyong
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated Sikkim’s first airport at Pakyong to the nation and said previous governments worked at a slow pace for ushering in development.

Modi said his government is committed to make the North-East an “engine of India’s growth story”.
With the inauguration of the greenfield airport, the country currently has 100 airports, he said.

“In the last four years, we have built 35 airports. Earlier the average was one airport every year, now the average is nine,” Modi said.
A greenfield airport is an aviation facility which has been commissioned and constructed from scratch without remodelling or renovating an existing structure.

The tourist footfall in Sikkim will increase manifold after this airport starts functioning from October 4, the Prime Minister said.

Initially flights will operate to Kolkata and Guwahati from Pakyong and subsequently it would be connected to other parts of the country.