Congestion-free airports within a year: Minister

New Delhi: Domestic airport in the national capital will be congestion-free in a year`s time after a second runway is constructed, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
"The second runway (at Delhi airport) will be constructed by June-July 2008 after which congestion will disappear," he said replying to supplementaries during question hour.
He said only Mumbai airport will have air-traffic congestion and that too would be eliminated over the next few years after a new airport is built in the city.
The government has taken up on a war-footing infrastructure upgradation at all major airports and 35 non-metro airports, he said adding newer destinations were provided air connectivity.
14/08/07 Zee News

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Categories: Airports Aug 2007