Shillong, Aug 13: The High Court of Meghalaya has expressed concern over the slow progress of the Shillong Airport expansion project and directed both the state and centre authorities to accelerate the work to ensure its completion as soon as possible.
The division bench comprising Chief Justice IP Mukerji and Justice W Diengdoh expressed regret over the lack of commitment and urgency from both the central and state governments in accomplishing the expansion goals
“We have received a short note from Additional Advocate General on behalf of the State. Deputy Solicitor General has also made submissions. Regrettably, it appears from those submissions, that although both the Central and State governments are conscious of the importance of expansion of this airport, the required urgency and commitment to propose in accomplishing this goal is not visible from the reports received by us,” the court said.
