NTR's name for Shamshbad domestic terminal
Hyderabad, November 20: At last, the wish of Telugu Desam Party and NTR's fans was fulfilled by Central Aviation ministry. The Ministry of Civil Aviation has confirmed that it has decided to soon rename the domestic terminal at the Shamshabad International Airport after the former chief minister of the united Andhra Pradesh NT Rama Rao.
The domestic terminal will soon be known as NTR Domestic Terminal. However the international terminal's name - Rajiv Gandhi International Terminal will remain same as before. When the old airport operating in Begumpet, the domestic terminal was named after NTR and the international terminal after Rajiv Gandhi. Then the TDP government started work on the new international airport in Shamshabad in 2005, and the party wanted to name it after its founder and the state's hero NTR.
But when the work on the new airport got over, Congress came to power in the state. The airport was then named after Rajiv Gandhi, against the wishes of the TDP and NTR fans. It doesn't respond to several pleas made by TDP and NTR fans to rename the domestic terminal after NTR.
With TDP minister heading the union aviation ministry it became easy for the party to get their demand fulfilled. Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju had said recently that the airport would be renamed after NTR.
News Posted: 20 November, 2014
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