DW BUREAU / New delhi Responding to a question by Jalandhar Member of Parliament Santokh Singh Chaudhary in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia assured that the matter of resumption of flights from Adampur airport was under consideration of the Central government. Union minister Scindia informed the flights were stopped as the viability gap funding period, which was for three years, had ended. The government would conduct a fresh round of bidding and will speak with the airlines for resuming operations from Adampur, he added. Raising the query during the question hour, MP Chaudhary stated that the flight services operated by SpiceJet from Adampur were stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic, but even after one and a half year, the services were not resumed. Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, three flights routes from Adampur to Delhi, Mumbai and Jaipur were in operation under the Central government's Regional Connectivity Scheme - UDAN. MP Chaudhary told the minister that Adampur airport was a very important airport of Doaba region providing services to local people, including industrialists and non-resident Indians and the suspension of flights was causing immense inconvenience to them. Its new terminal was also almost ready, he added, but the flights were yet to resume. (editor@dailyworld.in)