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Vayalar Ravi, Moily to attend diamond Jubilee Celebration of Mangalore Airport on Sunday

March 11, 2011

Mangalore, March 11: Vayalar Ravi, Union Minister for Civil Aviation and M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for Law and Justice will be attending the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of Mangalore Airport which will be held on March 13 at St Aloysius High School Auditorium, here.

Revealing this to media persons here on Friday, K Thejomaya, Coordinator of Diamond Jubilee Celebration Committee said the celebration would mark the 60th anniversary of the historical event of December 21, 1951 when then Prime Minister Jawaharalal Nehru inaugurated the Airport by flying from New Delhi to Mangalore.

Nalin Kumar Kateel, J Krishna Palemar, N Yogish Bhat, Oscar Fernandes, DV Sadananda Gowda, Abhayachandra Jain and others will also participate, he said.

He said as part of the celebrations, a serious of programmes through out the year including a seminar on “Indian Aviation and Tourism- Opportunities and New Directions”, rural sports meet, cultural extravaganza of school children, college students and women, national seminar on “Innovation in the construction of Airport and Mangalore as an International Airport”, state level sports (Kabaddi, weight lifting) will be held.

The valedictory function will be held on December at Kenjar New Terminal Airport.

Pascal Pinto, NRI, Kuwait and Prabhakaran Shriyan were present at the press meet.

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