Hyderabad, March 10 -- The Union minister of civil aviation, Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, has stated that the ministry has not received any proposal for the construction of a Greenfield airport at Ramagundam of Peddapalli district.

The response came in a letter addressed to Lok Sabha MP Vamsi Krishna Gaddam, who had inquired about the establishment of a domestic airport in the region.

In the letter dated January 29, the minister clarified that the existing Basanthnagar Airport (Ramagundam) is a non-operational airstrip with minimal infrastructure, limited to a small helipad.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had conducted a Techno-Economic Feasibility Report (TEFR), which indicated that the development of Basanth Nagar Airport may not...