Finally, the long wait ended. GMR Group will take over Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in a glittering ceremony to be held at 10 am on Thursday. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Civil Aviation K Rammohan Naidu will grace the ceremony. The airport was to be handed over to GMR in April 2025. It took almost more than a year.

 

Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar, Nagpur District Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol, Minister Adv Ashish Jaiswal, Rajya Sabha Member Maya Ivnate, Mayor Neeta Thakre, Ramtek MP Shyamkumar Barve, MLAs Mohan Mate, Pravin Datke, Sameer Meghe, Vikas Thakre, Krishna Khopde, Dr Ashish Deshmukh, Sanjay Meshram, Charansingh Thakur; MLCs Dr Parinay Fuke, Adv Abhijeet Wanjari, Krupal Tumane, Sanjay Bhende, Chief Secretary Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary of Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India Samir Kumar Sinha, Additional Chief Secretary of Civil Aviation Sanjay Sethi, Divisional Commissioner Vijayalaxmi Bidari, Chairman Managing Director Dr Vipin Itankar, Vice-Chairman MADC Deepak Kapoor, Collector Kumar Ashirwad will grace the occasion. MIL and G M Rao, Chairman of GMR Group have jointly organised the event.