Dibrugarh: The work of the ongoing much discussed runway extension project of Dibrugarh airport, has been marred due to alleged unwanted interference of Army authority.
The ground work at the site although features a material testing laboratory, stacking of stone chips and sand and also some eight odd pilings on the ground, unfortunately wears a deserted look as it came to be understood that in the first week of July, Army authorities personally met the Airports Authority of India officials at the airport and asked the latter to shift the material testing laboratory elsewhere and also to stop dumping of materials claiming that the land on which the same had been set up and dumping of materials was being done, belonged to them. Even as the Airports Authority of India approached both the Army authorities and the Dibrugarh Deputy Commissioner with the plea for an early resolution of the issue in the greater interest of the already delayed project, it could not be ascertained when all the parties concerned are going to hammer out a much needed solution across the table.
The Army had handed over 5.33 acres of land for the runway extension project in Dibrugarh in exchange for 8.0 acres of land and also some other facilities to the Defense department from the Airports Authority of India at Lilabari in Lakhimpur district. Dibrugarh airport is also going to have a hanger capable of accommodating an Airbus 320 aircraft and also a new control tower building having advanced facilities like those available in metro cities. As per the blue print, besides a new taxiway from the extended portion of the runway to the isolation bay, there will also be a kilometre long array of guiding lights leading the extended portion of the runway.
28/07/16 The Sentinel
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