Naval commander to meet YSR on Vizag airport flooding

New Delhi:With plans to build channels, that will stop Visakhapatnam’s navy-controlled airport from being inundated by rainwater year after year, Eastern Naval Commander Vice-Admiral Sureesh Mehta is scheduled to visit Hyderabad this week to meet Andhra CM.
Y S R Reddy to get the project back on track.
The INS Dega airport, a strategically important hub of defence aviation and an emerging hub for civil airlines, was flooded twice last October and again last week, virtually paralysing it.
Of the two airstrips, the naval one has remained untouched, because it is built on a higher level. Construction of channels to stop flooding on the civilian side has not taken off since January as a result of local municipal elections of the Vizag Urban Development Administration (VUDA) and Vizag Municipal Corporation (VMC).
09/08/06 Shiv Aroor/Indian Express

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