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The question of a second full-fledged international airport in Odisha has heated up after the high-profile Shree Jagannath International Airport project at Puri was recently nearly halted for regulatory scrutiny.
In the past week, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) issued notices to the Centre and the Odisha government over alleged environmental breaches in the Puri project, a move that places any near-term timeline for a second international gateway in doubt even as the state presses an ambitious aviation expansion agenda.
The NGT's order, which seeks responses from the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, the Mini...