<h1>Authorities order urgent completion of airport expansion and heliports amid Rs 460 crore paid, Rs 1,899 crore pending</h1> State authorities reported disbursement of Rs 460 crore for land acquisition for a regional airport expansion, with Rs 1,899 crore pending release, implicating statutory compensation and public-funding obligations. Regulatory compliance steps include Directorate General of Civil Aviation operational authorization for two heliports, pending completion of codal formalities before operations commence. Officials were directed to finish multiple heliport and tourism infrastructure projects by next year and to identify helicopter routes, raising procurement, contract-performance and environmental/land-use compliance issues. Acceleration orders affect projects funded domestically and by a multilateral lender, implicating conditional funding disbursement, project-monitoring and statutory clearance requirements.