The scare is over for now. Jumbo aircraft will land and take-off from the Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport.The state government has complied with the directorate-general of civil aviation’s  directive to prune 249 trees on the Patna zoo premises.Sharing this information today, cabinet co-ordination department principal secretary Afzal Amanullah said: DGCA had set the August 31 deadline for meeting this norm. We fulfilled it well before the cut-off date.The state civil aviation department is under the jurisdiction of Amanullah.
A day earlier, Amanullah visited Delhi and apprised the director-general of civil aviation, Airports Authority of India  chairman and Union civil aviation secretary of the steps being taken by the state government to remove the obstacles in the approach funnel.The hurdles were not allowing the aircraft to use the full runway length of the existing airport.Amanullah told the officials that the state government would meet most of the conditions put forth by the DGCA in the next six-seven months.The specifications include pruning of about 3,700 trees located inside and outside the Patna zoo, removal of street light poles and advertisement boards on roads outside the Patna airport and demolition of parts of buildings on the north-east side of the airport.