New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first Airport in Sikkim at Paykong Monday. Spread over 201 acres and located on top of a hill, the airport stands at 4,500 feet above sea level.

The airport, which is located at Pakyong, is a Greenfield airport which will circumvent the need for a five-hour journey through mountainous roads and bring citizens of Sikkim closer to the state capital.

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# Work is progressing at high pace to strengthen both, infrastructural&emotional connectivity to Sikkim&Northeast. I’ve been here myself to check the development work in Northeast&Union Miniters regularly visit the region

# The country has scored a century today. After the inauguration of airport in Sikkim, there are now 100 airports in India: PM

# Sikkim: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Pakyong Airport near Gangtok.

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— ANI (@ANI) September 24, 2018

# Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of New Greenfield Airport at Pakyong, Gangtok in Sikkim

The airport is spread over 201 acres and is located on top of a hill about 2 km above Pakyong village at 4,500 feet above sea level, Sikkim Chief Secretary A K Srivastava said. The airport was constructed by the Airports Authority of India and at present, the nearest airport from Sikkim is located 124 km away in Bagdogra in West Bengal.

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