{"id":431468,"date":"2026-06-21T05:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431468"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:58:46","slug":"policy-issues-behind-nonoperation-of-gautam-budhha-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/21\/431468.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Policy issues behind nonoperation of Gautam Budhha International Airport&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Devdaha (Rupandehi): Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Khadak Raj Paudel, has said that the Gautam Buddha International Airport will come into operation in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a programme organised in Bhairahaa of Rupandehi on Friday, the Minister said the government is preparing to bring the airport into full operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He argued that there is no truth to claims that political and diplomatic reasons are behind the airport&#8217;s non-operation. Policy issues are responsible for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that provisions have been made to obtain labour permits through home services, eliminating the need to travel to Kathmandu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also stressed the need to utilise the country&#8217;s aviation services to bring in more tourists. He also echoed the need to develop the Nijgadh Airport in the future. <strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devdaha (Rupandehi): Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Khadak Raj Paudel, has said that the Gautam Buddha International Airport will come into operation in the future. Speaking at a programme organised in Bhairahaa of Rupandehi on Friday, the Minister said the government is preparing to bring the airport into full operation. He argued that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":431469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431470,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431468\/revisions\/431470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431468"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}