Integrated Passenger Terminal for Kolkata airport

The Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel today met the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kolkata today. They held discussions on the modernization of the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport at Kolkata. A presentation was also made to the Chief Minister in this regard.
Some of the important upcoming infrastructure at Kolkata Airport will be an Integrated Passenger Terminal Building at an area measuring more than 180 thousand Sq.mt. with 104 Check-in counters, 22 immigration counters for Arrival and 22 for Departure, 25 Security Gates - 9 for international and 16 for domestic passengers, 5 conveyer belts and 15 Aerobridges.
The consultants appointed for the modernization of Kolkata Airport are: M/s. Sikka Architect and Associates with consortium partner RMJM (Hong Kong) and Virendra Khanna and Associates with consortium partners ADPI (Paris).
At present the Kolkata Airport has a passenger handling capacity of 0.73 million international passengers annually and 4.7 million domestic passengers annually which is likely to saturate by year 2008-09 and 2006-07 respectively. In 2006-07 there were 65687 aircraft movements of which 9414 were international and 56273 domestic. The passenger traffic in 2006-07 was 5993058 of which 805191 were international (registering a growth of 12%) and 5187867 was domestic (registering a growth of 20%).
In view of these facts, the decision has been taken to develop a modern Integrated Passenger Terminal Building to handle 20 million passengers, which will be sufficient to meet the demand up to 2015-16. Work is already in progress for 9 domestic bays. Three cargo bays and 11 additional parking bays will be constructed along with the new Integrated Terminal Building. Automation will be introduced in the CNS/ATM operation and a new control tower will be built.
The Project of modernizing the Kolkata Airport envisages an investment of Rs. 2000 crore.
07/09/07 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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