More Flights To Bhopal Airport: Social Media Movement Garners Popular Support

The Twitter campaign to increase air connectivity from Bhopal airport is garnering support from all quarters with the number of tweets supporting the cause reaching 13,000 in the sixth week of the campaign, Dainik Bhaskar has reported.

The campaign #BhopalForAirConnectivity was started on Facebook as a page #SupportBhopalForAirConnectivity by Prachi Baluapuri who is a life coach trainer. The page has touched the 26,000 support mark in just 3 months.

The group members have met several airport authorities in order to put forth their demand of improvement in air connectivity to the Raja Bhoj airport in the city.

The members also met with the officials of various airlines, presenting them facts and scope for good passenger traffic, to understand what is stopping them from increasing the number of flights from the airport. The citizens’ demand meanwhile, continues to find support on social media.

A RTI has also been filed by a group member with the Airport Authority of India (AAI) in order to collect more information on why the airport is lacking in flights. Twitter users are now tagging the concerned authorities with their demand.