Fresh bids for Bijapur airport likely to take place next month

Bangalore: The Karnataka Government has proposed to invite fresh bids from private players for the Greenfield airport at Bijapur, following its inability to select private sector developers in the previous bidding process that was initiated in May, 2007. The fresh round of bidding is likely to take place next month. The bidder who came close to being selected in the first round demanded 100 acres of additional land for city-side development to make the project economically viable, according to an Infrastructure Development Department official. Since the Government was not able to readily concede with the demand, the selection process came to a halt. The decision to re-invite bids is likely to benefit the state, which has been highly successful in attracting private players for development of Greenfield aviation infrastructure.
Along with the Bijapur airport, the State Government had offered the Greenfield Shimoga and Gulbarga airports for development on the basis of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model, which are going to be developed by Maytas-led consortium.
28/11/07 Venugopal Pillai/TravelBizMonitor

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