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Union Defence Minister<\/strong> and <\/span>Minister for Road Transport and Highways<\/strong> have jointly inaugurated Emergency Landing Facility(ELF)<\/strong> for the Indian Air Force(IAF)<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n About Emergency Landing Facility(ELF)<\/b><\/p>\n Purpose:<\/b> It <\/span>will be used for emergency landings of the Indian Air Force aircrafts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Located at:<\/b> It is a 3 km stretch located on Gandhav-Bhakasar section on <\/span>National Highway-925 in Barmer, Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n Developed by: <\/b>\u00a0GHV India Pvt. Ltd under the supervision of IAF<\/strong> and the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)<\/strong> has developed this ELF.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance of Emergency Landing Facility<\/b><\/p>\n This is the first time that a National Highway will be used as an Emergency Landing Field (ELF) for IAF aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n This emergency landing area is strategically important from the national security<\/strong> point of view also as it is just 40 kilometres from the India-Pakistan border<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n The government also announced that the Emergency Landing Facilities will be developed at 19 other places to strengthen the country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Union Minister inaugurates Emergency Landing Facility for Indian Air Force in Barmer, Rajasthan<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in PIB <\/b>on 9th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Union Defence Minister and Minister for Road Transport and Highways have jointly inaugurated Emergency Landing Facility(ELF) for the Indian Air Force(IAF). About Emergency Landing Facility(ELF) Purpose: It will be used for emergency landings of the Indian Air Force aircrafts.\u00a0 Located at: It is a 3 km stretch located on Gandhav-Bhakasar… Continue reading Union Minister inaugurates Emergency Landing Facility for Indian Air Force in Barmer, Rajasthan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[8847,9665,8782],"class_list":["post-133047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-border-related-issues","tag-emergency-landing-facility","tag-government-policies-and-interventions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704803511},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}