AAI to upgrade Chennai airport

Mumbai: State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) will modernise the Chennai airport, the third busiest airport in the country. At a time when the government is encouraging public-private partnership in the airport modernisation programme, the Prime Minister’s Committee on Infrastructure, which met today, has decided that the airport will be upgraded by the AAI.
Earlier, the government had given the modernisation mandate of the Kolkata airport to the AAI. The Left parties and the AAI employees were always against involving private and international companies in the modernisation of airports.
The greenfield airport, mooted by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunandihi, coming up at Sriperumbudur near Chennai will be developed under a public-private partnership. The Prime Minister’s Committee has also asked for a pre-feasibility report for this greenfield airport.
16/06/07 Business Standard

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