Lengpui Airport

Lengpui Airport (IATA: AJL, ICAO: VELP) is an domestic airport in Aizawl, Mizoram, India.

The airport is connected by daily flights with Kolkata and Guwahati and three flights a week with Imphal and is located at a distance of 32 km from Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram. Lengpui Airport is the first large airport in the country to be built by the State Government.

History

The airport was constructed at a cost of ₹ 97.92 crores and was completed in a record time of two years and two months. The construction work started in December 1995 and completed in February 1998. The Airport is expected to be able to cater to 300 incoming and outgoing passengers. Before the construction of this airport, Aizawl was 130 km (81 mi) from the nearest railway head at Bairabi and 205 km (127 mi) from the nearest airport at Silchar. With regards to land acquisition it has been found out that about 65 percent of the area acquired, belonged to some high government officials and political leaders at Aizawl who started buying plots from people in Lengpui village at very low prices. They then donated the land to the government for the airport for which the rich persons got much more compensation as donors than the actual farmers. Previously, Lengpui was also served by Air Deccan which later became Kingfisher Red but the airlines stopped operating from Lengpui on April 2012.

Lengpui

Lengpui is a census town in Mamit district in the Indian state of Mizoram.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Lengpui had a population of 2423. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Lengpui has an average literacy rate of 80%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81%, and female literacy is 78%. In Lengpui, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Economy

The main Economy of Lengpui is Agriculture, the other main big employers are Lengpui Airport. The National Institute of Technology Mizoram is also going to be placed in Lengpui area.

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