Share costs in airport modernisation: Patel to CMs

New Delhi: The Government today appealed to Chief Ministers to join hands with it and share costs for modernisation and upgradation of airports across the country.
"I appeal to the Chief Ministers to come forward and help the Government in its programme of modernisation and upgradation of airports," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel told Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
Patel was replying to a volley of questions from members with regard to various projects for modernisation and upgradation of airports.
The airports which have been taken up for modernisation and upgradation are Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Trivandrum, Amritsar, Dehradun, Jaipur, Khajurao, Kullu, Lucknow, Pantnagar, Srinagar, Udaipur, Bhubaneshwar, Gaya, Agartala, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Silchar, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Belgaum, Gondia, Nagpur, Pune, Raipur, Vadodara, Surat, Agatti, Calicut, Hubli, Mangalore, Madurai, Mysore, Tirupathi, Trichy and Visakhapatnam.
In addition, new greenfield airports were coming up at Hyderabad and Bangalore, Patel said.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI), he said, had spent Rs 566.22 crore, Rs 606.49 crore and Rs 876.08 crore for airport modernisation and upgradation in each of the last three years respectively.
08/03/07 PTI/The Hindu

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Categories: Airports Mar 2007, General Aviation Mar 2007