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Lucknow
Airport
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On July 17,
2008 GoI
approved the
naming of
the Lucknow
Airport as
“Chaudhary
Charan Singh
Airport”.
The Lucknow
airport
belongs to
Airports
Authority of
India
(AAI).
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In the past,
some
airports in
important
cities have
been named,
with the
approval of
the Union
Cabinet,
after the
eminent
personalities
belonging to
the area, as
under:
Mission
IAS’2009
Ahmedabad
airport as
“Sardar
Vallabhbhai
Patel
International
Airport” on
07.12.1998.
Patna
airport as
“Jai Prakash
Narayan
Airport” on
22.12.1996.
At old
Hyderabad
airport:
(a)
The
renovated
and expanded
old building
terminal was
named as
“N.T. Rama
Rao
Terminal” on
17.06.1999;
and
(b)
The terminal
building
commissioned
in March
1997was
named as
“Rajiv
Gandhi
Terminal” on
17.06.1999.
Udaipur
airport as
“Maharana
Pratap
Airport” on
28.08.1997.
Bhubaneshwar
airport as
“Biju
Patnaik
Airport” on
17.04.1998.
Guwahati
airport as
“Lokpriya
Gopinath
Bordoloi
Airport” on
23.08.1998.
Ranchi
airport as
“Birsa Munda
Airport” on
27.05.2000.
Indore
airport as
“Ahilya Bai
Holkar
Airport” on
05.03.2001.
Port Blair
Airport,
Bhopal
airport and
Gwalior
Civil Air
Terminal
renamed as
“Veer
Savarkar
Airport”,
“Raja Bhoj
Airport” and
“Rajmata
Vijayayraje
Schindia
Terminal”,
respectively,
on 18th
December,
2001.
New
Greenfield
airport at
Shamshabad
near
Hyderabad as
“Rajiv
Gandhi
International
Airport” on
16th March,
2005.
Nagpur
airport has
been renamed
as “Dr.
Babasahed
Ambedkar
International
Airport,
Nagpur” on
5th May,
2005.
Leh airport
as “Kushok
Bakula
Rimpochhe
Airport, Leh”
on 10th
June, 2005.
Varanasi
airport as
“Lal Bahadur
Shastri
Airport,
Varanasi” on
20th
October,
2005.
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This
is besides
the cases of
international
airports
such as
Indira
Gandhi
International
Airport, New
Delhi;
Chattrapati
Shivaji
International
Airport,
Mumbai;
Netaji
Subhash
Chandra Bose
International
Airport,
Kolkata; and
Anna
International
Terminal and
Kamraj
Domestic
Terminal at
Chennai
airport.
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Chaudhary
Charan Singh
was the 7th
Prime
Minister of
India
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