Mangalore Airport awaits DGCA nod to commission ATC

July 16, 2014

Mangalore, Jul 16: Mangalore International Airport (MIA) is ready to commission its new air traffic control (ATC) tower and is currently awaiting statutory clearances from Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

The new air traffic control, set up at a cost of Rs 20 crore, is presently functioning in shadow mode. Once commissioned, the tower will enable air traffic controllers assist pilots in landing and take-off operations. It will also help in control lighting facilities on the airport's two runways.

The new ATC tower is 25-metre high, three times the height of the existing tower. With the construction of the new tower, the air traffic controllers will have a clear and overall view of the old and the new runways, and also the approaches to the runways, said director of Mangalore International Airport J T Radhakrishnan.

He said that the meteorological reporting department will also be established at the new ATC tower. The clearances are likely to be expected by the end of July.

The ATC operations were currently being controlled from a seven-metre tower at the airport.

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Protest over notice to vacate Waqf land: Home Minister says decision to be taken based on old records

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October 26,2024

Bengaluru: Amid protests by farmers in Vijayapura who have been served notices by the Karnataka Board of Waqfs to vacate the land their ancestors had allegedly encroached, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Saturday said the state government will review the situation.

Speaking to reporters here, he said, "We will review it. The state government and the revenue department will review it. A decision will be taken based on old records." When asked that the Waqf Board had set a deadline to vacate the land, the minister said that is not a problem.

Meanwhile, in the district headquarter town of Vijayapura in North Karnataka bordering Maharashtra, the farmers staged a demonstration at the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

Holding the land records and registered land deeds, the farmers alleged that they were served notice soon after Housing and Waqf Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan visited Vijayapura and directed the Deputy Commissioner to serve notices to the farmers who were sitting on Waqf land.

Farmer leaders alleged that without bringing the matter to their notice, the land records of farmers in Tenahalli village in Indi Taluk and Honvada village in Tikota Taluk were changed and made in favour of Waqf.

Bengaluru South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Friday said the Karnataka State Board of Waqfs has claimed its ownership over 1,500 acres of ancestral land of farmers in Honvada village.

Surya, who is also Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president, said the farmers of Honvada village in Tikota Taluk were served notices declaring their lands as Waqf property "with no evidence or explanation provided".

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