Re-look at airport policy likely

New Delhi: The Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Civil Aviation has stressed a re-look into the airport policy. It has asked the government to allow multiple airports at metropolitan cities, as is the practice world over.
At a meeting of the Committee, the members pointed out that multiple airports would be necessary to address the existing problems in metropolitan airports with the growth of civil aviation sector. Responding to the concerns of the members, the committee chairman Mr Patel said that the ministry shared the views and the concerns of the members and that it had already raised the issue during the recent meeting on infrastructure chaired by the Prime Minister. “A group consisting of the finance minister, the civil aviation minister, and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission had been set up to see how to take this process further," he told the members. He also assured the members that a new policy for airport would be in place before June 2008.
14/11/07 The Statesman

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Categories: Airports Nov 2007