Improved security situation in Kashmir has encouraged the Jammu and Kashmir government to request the Prime Minister to hand over the control of Srinagar International Airport to the civil authorities. To this extent, the State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has made the request to the PM. 
 
 The Chief Minister revealed that in his recent meetings with Union leadership including the prime minister and the home minister, he underlined the need of reducing the security checks at Srinagar airport which were imposed at the time when militancy was in peak.
 He said that situation is now reverse demanding re-looking of the aspect to make travel of people of the state and the visitors hassle free. The Chief Minister said this while interacting with civil society on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar's International Convocation Complex.
 
 Abdullah wanted that the 'cumbersome' searching and burdensome security checking need to be eased in the changed circumstances now.