Kathmandu, January 20
A subcommittee under the Labour and International Relations Committee in the House of Representatives has concluded that the plan to shift the domestic terminal of Tribhuvan International Airport to Nagidanda of Kavre is not necessary.
Though the government has allocated Rs 500 million to conduct a feasibility study for executing the plan within this fiscal year.
But, the subcommittee led by former prime minister and senior leader of ruling Nepal Communist Party, Madhav Kumar Nepal, has concluded that the plan is made just to serve vested interests of a handful of people.
Whereas the government is involved in the big project of constructing an international airport in Nijgadh of Bara district, the state should not spend any money in Kavre, the panel concludes.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation had developed the plan arguing it would ease Kathmandu airport’s traffic congestion.
Meanwhile, the panel has suggested that the construction site of Nijgadh airport be also shifted by some 100 metres towards south.
