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Work for Puducherry airport's runway expansion on, AAI prepares project DPR
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IANS | 03 Jun, 2022
Work for expansion of Puducherry airport's runway is on and the Airport
Authority of India (AAI) is preparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR)
for the same.
Puducherry Civil Aviation minister
Lakshminarayanan while speaking to IANS said, "A technical team of the
AAI had visited the Union Territory in January 2022 and had assessed the
details of the land requirement and a master plan has been prepared as a
follow up of this visit."
He said that there would be land
acquisition in two phases involving 30 acres of land in Union territory
of Puducherry and 395 acres in Tamil Nadu in two phases.
In the
first phase, 150.5 acres of land will be acquired, of which 30 acres is
in Puducherry while the remaining 120.5 acres is in Tamil Nadu.
During
phase two expansion, 273.5 acres of land will be acquired in Tamil Nadu
and the state government has already allocated Rs 300 crore for this
land.
Sources in the Union Territory government told IANS that
of the 30 acres of land required from the Puducherry government, 28.5
acres have been identified.
Of this, 20 acres is with the
Puducherry government while the balance 8.5 acres is with private owners
and government sources told IANS that there are around 60 buildings in
this 8.5-acre landed property.
According to officials, the
present runway is 1500x30 m and is capable of handling smaller ATR48/72
aircraft and Q400 type of aircraft.
The land to acquire,
according to officials, is a low-lying area and has to be filled for
around 60 feet to make it at par with the existing runway.
The
total amount required for acquiring the land is around Rs 425 crore as
per the present estimate, officials of the Union territory informed IANS
and added that the entire amount will be funded by the Union
Government.
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