{"id":42965,"date":"2018-09-25T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=42965"},"modified":"2018-09-25T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:20:17","slug":"sikkim-gets-its-first-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sikkim-gets-its-first-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikkim gets its first airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakyong<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated Sikkim\u2019s first airport at Pakyong to the nation and said previous governments worked at a slow pace for ushering in development.<\/p>\n<p>Modi said his government is committed to make the North-East an \u201cengine of India\u2019s growth story\u201d.<br \/>\nWith the inauguration of the greenfield airport, the country currently has 100 airports, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last four years, we have built 35 airports. Earlier the average was one airport every year, now the average is nine,\u201d Modi said.<br \/>\nA greenfield airport is an aviation facility which has been commissioned and constructed from scratch without remodelling or renovating an existing structure.<\/p>\n<p>The tourist footfall in Sikkim will increase manifold after this airport starts functioning from October 4, the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Initially flights will operate to Kolkata and Guwahati from Pakyong and subsequently it would be connected to other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakyong Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated Sikkim\u2019s 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 \u201cengine of India\u2019s growth story\u201d. With the inauguration of the greenfield airport, the country currently has [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42967,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions\/42967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}