{"id":7227,"date":"2022-11-03T12:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:28:32","slug":"donyi-polo-airport-itanagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/donyi-polo-airport-itanagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The name\u00a0reflect the people\u2019s reverence of the Sun as Donyi and the Moon as Polo to symbolize the traditions and rich cultural heritage of the State.<\/li>\n<li>In January,2019, the Central government granted in-principle\u2019 approval for development of Hollongi Greenfield Airport.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The project is being developed by Airports Authority of India \u00a0with the help of Central Government and the State Government of at a cost of\u00a0\u20b9646 crore.<\/li>\n<li>With a 2,300 metre runway, the greenfield airport is the first in Arunachal Pradesh to have the capacity to land big aircraft.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Hollongi airport is the state\u2019s third after Pasighat and Tezu airports and only airport in the capital city.<\/li>\n<li>The central government had earlier accorded its approval for setting up of the \u201cgreenfield airport&#8221; under the\u00a0<strong>`Capital Connectivity Scheme`<\/strong>\u00a0to build up fixed wing air connectivity facility to the state capital.<\/li>\n<li>The Donyi Polo airport in Itanagar is northeast India`s 16th airport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Union-Cabinet-approves-naming-Hollongi-Greenfield-Airport-in-Arunachal-Pradesh-as-%e2%80%9cDonyi-Polo-Airport%2c-Itanagar%e2%80%9d&amp;id=450268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donyi Polo Airport, also known as Hollongi Airport, is a domestic airport serving Itanaga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}