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Nation Port Blair Airport

INAUGURATION OF NEW TERMINAL BUILDING AT PORT BLAIR

AFTER BIG AND SMALL CITIES PACE OF

DEVELOPMENT REACHES ISLANDS

Andaman and Nicobar is an island group situated in the Bay of Bengal which
is famous for its white sand and tropical rainforests. This island is also
famous for its natural beauty and adventure travel. Many tourists want to
go there but change their destination plan due to limited connectivity here.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 18 inaugurated the new integrated
terminal building of Veer Savarkar International Airport built at a cost of Rs
710 crore at Port Blair, giving a boost to development and connectivity.

n the past due to the slow pace of the working of a new story is being written for the development of
the government, the scope of development in the island groups along with big and small cities of the
Icountry was limited to big cities for a long time. As country. The pace of development in the Islands can
a result, the people of small towns and rural areas be gauged from the fact that a budget of Rs 23,000
started seeing their future in big cities only. With the crore was allocated to Andaman and Nicobar in the
change of government at the center came a change in nine years of the previous government, while the
the way of working and thinking. In the last nine years, present government has allocated a budget of Rs
under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 48,000 crore in the last nine years.

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