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Assam government has written to Centre for more emergency landing facilities: Himanta

Updated - February 15, 2026 01:43 pm IST - Guwahati Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati. File photo: The Hindu Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday (February 15, 2026) said he has written to the Centre seeking more emergency landing facilities in the state, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Northeast's first ELF in Moran. He also announced that the Assam government will ink a pact with the Civil Aviation Ministry next month to carry out a feasibility study to construct four more airports at Majuli, Diphu, Umrangso and Manas.

Assam government has written to Centre for more emergency landing facilities: Himanta

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Key Highlights

  • Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Mr.
  • Sarma said more strategic assets are being planned, including a twin tube road-cum-rail tunnel under the Brahmaputra river and an underground highway beneath the Chicken's Neck corridor.
  • "The Moran ELF has extreme strategic importance for Assam and the Northeast.
  • The PM inaugurating it in the presence of the Air Chief Marshal yesterday has sent a very strong message that India is ready for everything on this front," he said.
  • A lot of highway and other strategic projects are being constructed in Arunachal Pradesh, considering its border with China, but "Assam is being developed as a backup state in case of a war", Mr.
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