After the feasibility studies are completed, proper project reports would be prepared to take up with North Eastern Council (NEC) and Civil Aviation Ministry for consideration, the sources added.

The department has also directed all Deputy Commissioners in the State to examine and submit reports on the feasibility of establishing airports near district headquarters, they said, adding that the department is examining them for further necessary action.

All-out efforts had been made to modernise and upgrade the lone airport at Dimapur under NEC schemes so that it could be provided with night-landing facility, the sources said. As a first step towards development of inland water ways in the State, Nagaland Government has submitted a proposal of feasibility study to make Tizu river navigable up to Chndwin river in Myanmar to promote two-way trade between the two neighbours, the sources disclosed.