Guwahati Nov 20: Arunachal Pradesh gets a swanky new greenfield airport, which was recently inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A greenfield airport is a facility with greenfield project characteristics, which includes certain environmental qualities, for example, making use of previously undeveloped or empty greenfield land. The land used for the purpose would be a natural space that could have included a meadow or grassland. A brownfield project, on the other hand, would include improving or including previously existing structures.

Tucked away in a corner of the country, and being a place that is closest to a hostile China, Arunachal Pradesh’s new airport comes at a time when large connectivity an infrastructural projects are being undertaken in Northeast India.

Guwahati, for example, will soon have a large number of flyovers that will remove most of the city’s traffic snarls, while a second bridge over the Brahmaputra right in the middle of the city will give the city easy access to the north bank of the river, which is already being developed at a feverish pace.

Given the severe weather conditions and inhospitable terrain on the way to Arunachal Pradesh, the state was earlier accessible only by road and a helicopter service that witnessed a number of accidents that cost precious lives. With its new airport in place,

Arunachal Pradesh is now better connected with the rest of the country better than ever before. The airport is located at Itanagar, the capital of the state.