Palaly airport to be a regional airport not international

04 Mar, 2016

The Government says the Palaly airport in Jaffna will be converted into a regional airport and not an international airport.

Minister of Resettlement D.M. Swaminathan said that the Government wants to ensure the war displaced are given homes and resettled soon.

He told war displaced families in Kopai that the Government wants to have flights between India and Sri Lanka to operate from Jaffna.

He insisted that the Government has no plans to convert Palaly into an international airport and see more families in the North being displaced. (Colombo Gazette)

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