NTR name restored in Hyderabad airport

Telugu Desam Party founder N T Rama Rao will once again have a terminal at the Hyderabad airport named after him. The Civil Aviation Ministry has decided to restore the name of the domestic terminal after NTR.

The old Hyderabad airport at Begumpet had two terminals. The international terminal was named after Rajiv Gandhi, while the domestic airport had NTR’s name. But when the airport was shifted to Shamshabad in 2008, the then Congress government at the Centre re-christened the airport as Rajiv Gandhi international airport, dropping NTR’s name.

An angry TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu had been demanding that the Shamshabad airport be re-named after NTR. Civil Aviation Minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju, a veteran TDP leader, has now decided to restore the old names.

The new name will come into effect immediately and will be given equal prominence.