Chandigarh, Feb. 15 -- Member of Parliament Manish Tewari has written to Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu to make Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport as a designated Point of Call (POC) to enable foreign airlines to fly to and from here.

"The Chandigarh international airport situated in Mohali, which is now called the Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh International Airport, services the states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. A large number of people travel internationally from these three states both for the purposes of work as well as for tourism. Unfortunately, the airport has not been designated as a POC for international airlines and therefore is not on the 'bilateral offer list', which is a prerequisi...