The organization of CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs) has declared Kushinagar Airport as a Customs notified airport. This would also facilitate global passenger actions which include that of Buddhist pilgrims.
Highlights:
The Kushinagar airport is a global airport unfolding throughout a location of 600 acres. It was granted the licence to operate global flights by using DGCA remaining February. In the month of August, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) prolonged the validity of the licence to function worldwide flights till February 21, 2023. The licence was once due to expire on August 21, 2021.
The Building Urban Planning Capacity in India report comprises of a set of recommendations on several aspects of urban planning like:
Interventions for planning healthy cities
Optimum utilization of urban land
Ramping up human-resource capacities
Strengthening urban Governance
Building local Leadership
Enhancing the role of private sector and
Advancing the urban planning Education system.
As per report, India needs a Central sector scheme to build 500 healthy cities over the next five years as well as a thorough revamp of town-planning acts in states in order to meet future challenges of Urbanisation.
As per the NITIAayog, the Central sector scheme for building 500 healthy cities will have to be initiated by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in association with the states & Union Territories.