Karwar airport in the offing

Karwar: It is learnt that the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has proposed to build an airport in Karwar. If every goes according to the plan, the people of Uttara Kannada district can fly to states' capital and other important cities of the country in coming days. In fact the AAI had identified other ll-tier cities in the state including Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Raichur, Bellary, Shimoga, Hassan and Kushalnagar to build airports.
Karwar provides greater advantage for an airport in the sense that state-of-art Naval Base was being developed here. The Navy has proposed to build its own airstrip at Hattikeri in Ankola taluk in the second stage of development of the Naval Base which was already in the pipeline. In fact the state government had been insisting the Navy to provide facilities to civilian aircrafts also in the proposed Naval air station. However, the Navy had sought an additional 75 hectares of land to extend the runway to 3,000 metres from proposed 2,000 metres to accomodate civilian aircrafts. Thus the ball was in the court of state government now.
25/07/07 SahilOnline, United Arab Emirates

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