{"id":175552,"date":"2020-06-24T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=175552"},"modified":"2020-06-24T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:26:43","slug":"cabinet-approves-declaration-of-kushinagar-airport-in-uttar-pradesh-as-an-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/175552","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves declaration of Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, June 24 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; The Union Cabinet&nbsp;chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-168445 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Airplane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Airplane.jpg 600w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Airplane-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Modi&nbsp;has given its approval for declaration of Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kushinagar Airport is located in the vicinity of several Buddhist Cultural Sites like Sravasti, Kapilvastu, Lumbini (Kushinagar itself is a Buddhist cultural site) and declaration as an \u201cInternational Airport\u201d will offer improved connectivity, wider choice of competitive costs to the air-travellers.&nbsp; It will result in boosting of domestic\/international tourism and economic development of the regions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Kushinagar is located in the north-eastern part of Uttar Pradesh about 50 km east of Gorakhpur and is one of the important Buddhist pilgrimage sites.<\/p>\n<p>Posted On: 24 JUN 2020 4:38PM by PIB Delhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, June 24 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; The Union Cabinet&nbsp;chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi&nbsp;has given its approval for declaration of Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kushinagar Airport is located in the vicinity of several Buddhist Cultural Sites like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cabinet approves declaration of Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/175552\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cabinet approves declaration of Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi, June 24 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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