The government recently decided to build a new Rs 13,000-crore greenfield civil-military airport as part of the Great Nicobar project instead of expanding the existing naval airfield at INS Baaz.
About INS Baaz:
It is an Indian naval air station located near Campbell Bay, on Great Nicobar Island in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
It was commissioned in 2012. It is the first air station in the Nicobar Islands.
It is the southernmost air station of the Indian Armed Forces.
It is under the joint-services Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) of the Indian Armed Forces.
It significantly enhances India’s capacity for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance across vast areas of the Indian Ocean.
It overlooks the Strait of Malacca as well as the Six Degree Channel between Great Nicobar and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
It is used as a base for the Indian Navy's Dornier Do 228 reconnaissance aircraft.
It can also operate the Indian Air Force's C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft.
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