On Monday, AAI officials, Panchayati raj minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, government chief whip Vinay Bhaskar, MLAs Aroori Ramesh and Challa Dharma Reddy visited the Mamnoor airport site. Recently IT and municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao met union civil aviation minister Harpeet Singh to take up the six proposed airports in Telangana and particularly the Mamnoor airport which already has an air strip. Following the meeting, a team came to Mamnoor on August 29 according to the reports published in aviationindia.net.
As there is a prospect that the land in the villages of Nakkalapalli and Gadepalle will have to be acquired, Dayakar Rao said 200 acres would be acquired and farmers will be compensated. “The farmers will be given land at an alternative place or will be compensated financially,” the minister said. An R&B road will also be affected because of the acquisition and this would be about 50 acre of land. “Whatever land is needed by the AAI for the airport, it will be given by the state government,” he said.
