Port Blair, Oct. 29: The Bharatiya Janata Party, Andaman & Nicobar Islands led by Shri Ajoy Bairagi, State President, BJP, A & N Islands through Shri M Vinod, State Vice President has requested Hon’ble Minister of Civil Aviation, GOI to Increase the number of inbound flights from major metropolitan cities such as Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangaluru, Hyderabad etc. from November, 2020 onwards.

Vinod has brought to the knowledge of the Minister that in view of ongoing pandemic the Tourism industry of these Islands has been hit the hardest, which used to be the largest employment provider in private sectors of these Islands. He requested the Minister to increase the number of flights, which will surely help boost the fallen tourism industry besides supporting thousands of livelihoods depending on it during the pandemic financial crunch.