[Assam] New N-E carrier to spread wings

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

New N-E carrier to spread wings
 - Airline to take off by October-end       OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT                                   Agartala, Aug. 1: A new private airlines is set to bring glad tidings to all high fliers. 
           Surya Airlines Private Limited is set to introduce flights to and from the capitals of all northeastern sta-tes by the end of October this year. The company is purchasing nine 19-seater aircraft from the US for this service. 
           “This will be a Northeast-specific project. That is why we are acquiring small aircraft to cope with the difficult terrain. We intend to start operations by the end of October,” said K. Balachandran Nair, chairman of the Kerala-based Universal Empire Group, which has also set up the first private medical college of the Northeast here.
           He said that the airline was awaiting clearance from the director general of civil aviation. It is being hoped that it would materialise by the end of October this year, he added. 
           “Two of the aircraft would be stationed at Agartala while the others would be scattered in different state capitals of the seven northeastern states,” Nair said at a media briefing here today. 
           He said that considering the constraints in travelling within the region, the air-service would initially cater specifically to the Northeast and later venture into other states.
            Nair and vice-president of Universal Empire Group, Prashanth Nair, arrived here to inaugurate the Tripura Medical College, which has been described as the first public private partnership in the region. 
           The Rs 164-crore project, involving a medical college and hospital, has already been cleared by the Medical Council of India (MCI) and admission of students on the basis of a common countrywide entrance examination will commence next month. 
           “We are already flooded with applications for admission and there are even candidates from Bangladesh. Many NRIs have also applied,” Nair said. 
           He asserted that the 300-bed Dr Bram Hospital, which had been taken over by Global Educational Net, a trust of the Universal Empire Group, is being expanded to a 500-bed hospital. A super-speciality block would be created soon, he disclosed. 
           “To supplement the services of doctors here, super- specialists will be brought in from outside for treatment of complicated diseases and for major operations,” Nair explained. He further said that recently Tripura’s first plastic surgery had been successfully conducted at this very hospital. 
           He also said that 25 of the 100 students being admitted this year have been nominated by the state government and the rest would be directly admitted by the medial college authorities. 
           “We are creating special facilities for students so that they can get the best of medical education in an ideal atmosphere,” Nair added.
http://telegraphindia.com/1060802/asp/northeast/story_6556039.asp


 		
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