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Tributes to Tripura’s visionary King Bir Bikram Manikya on his 111th birth anniversary
TIWN Aug 19, 2019
Tributes to Tripura’s visionary King Bir Bikram Manikya on his 111th birth anniversary
PHOTO : File Photo of King Late Bir Bikram Manikya with Rajmata late Kanchan Prava Devi.

AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Tripura’s visionary King Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Bahadur’s birth anniversary is being celebrated by Royal family and Rajmata Bibhu Devi to illuminate the programme.

Chief Minister Biplab Deb has tweeted, “My humble tributes to Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman Manikya Bahadur ji on his 111th birth anniversary”.

“Today at 7 am offered my pranams to Maharja Bir Bikram on his 111th birth anniversary along with Ananta Debbarma and others . Maharaja Bir Bikram was my grandfather and continues to be an inspiration for me”, said Pradyot Manikya, the Royal Scion.

Ahead of the programme, Tripura Princess Pragya Deb Barman said few lines which signifies modernization of Tripura and vision of the King and history says these claims of the Princess are facts.

The King believed in a transparent society and all culture’s people were invited to develop Tripura and no communal riot ever held in the empire of Bir Bikram Manikya. Prgya Deb Barman remembering the King also said, without open minds Tripura can not go ahead but day by day people’s mentalities are downing.

Hence Tripura saw growth in culture, arts and had an Airport which in comparison to other states of India was much advanced. Moreover, in the British rule in India Tripura was affected heavily but the King never surrendered before the British, rather various Indian figures like Tagore were regular visitors in Tripura.

Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport, also known as Agartala Airport, is a domestic airport 12 kilometres (7 miles) northwest of the city of Agartala, the capital of the state of Tripura in India. It is administered by the Airports Authority of India (AAI. It is the third busiest airport in North East after Imphal Airport. The airport was designed and built in 1942 by the then Maharaja of Tripura, Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Debbarman. It had one primary runway, 05/23, which is now used as a taxiway to Runway 18/36.

During World War II, the airport was used by the 4th Combat Cargo Group (4th CCG) of the United States Army Air ForcesTenth Air Force, flying Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft over Burma. The airport was used as a supply point from which the unit air-dropped pallets of supplies and ammunition to the advancing Allied forces on the ground.

The 4th CCG operated from the airport during December 1944 and January 1945, after which it moved to Chittagong.

The airport experienced international operations when Indian Airlines flew to Dhaka-Tejgaon Airport and Khulna in East Pakistan/Bangladesh from Agartala.

Due to this Airport only, Central Govt could send forces when Pakistan claimed Tripura as a part of it, said a report and thanks goes to again to King Bir Bikram Manikya Bahadur. 

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