AGARTALA, Nov 18 (TIWN): Opposition parties in Tripura have been agitating on the ongoing flight crisis situation, massive fare hikes of fares in the Airways.

On Saturday a memorandum was placed to Ex-Chief Minister Manik Sarkar by CPI-M's youth wings DYFI, TYF, SFI, TSU demanding Govt's interference on increasing flight fares of Agartala. 

A memorandum was sent to Union Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu by CPI-M already to look into the serious issue as state's people are unable to bear the flight fare costs and tackle with the ongoing ticket crisis. 

On the other side, Congress has demanded that within 7 days an immediate down in the VAT charges on aviation turbine fuel in Tripura should be introduced. The VAT is is 18% whereas Congress has demanded it should be 4% following other Northeast States. 

"Tripura is already lagging behind in development. Under Jawharlal Nehru's Prime Ministry  subsidies were given for four Airports and flights were running including Khowai, Kamalpur, Kailashahar route. Kamalpur to Kailashahar at Rs. 5 the students could travel on that time. Rs. 18 was the charge for Kailashahar-Agartala route. From Kailshahar to Kolkata it was Rs. 65. But all were stopped and now a Govt (BJP) which is same at Centre and State is pushing all flights to take off permanently from Agartala Airport", Congress President Birjit Sinha told media.

The issue was raised after tickets for Delhi-Agartala, Agartala-Kolkata, Kolkata-Agartala are offering mounting charges to the travelers.

This costly flight fares were never experienced in last many years, but with numbers of quitting flights the cost is turning unbearable for common men.