PM Modi to inaugurate Kushinagar international airport on Wednesday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Kushinagar International Airport on October 20 in the presence of over 100 dignitaries. The Centre said that the airport is expected to increase tourist inflow by 20 percent as per the Uttar Pradesh government’s estimates.

PM Modi is also set to deliver an address at the Buddhist site of Mahaparinirvana Stupa the same day.

The Centre said that the development of the airport at Kushinagar will help in establishing the place as one of the four principal places of Buddhist Pilgrimage.