Four new airports set to get nod

New Delhi: The Union civil aviation ministry has nearly completed looking into the Hassan, Shimoga, Gulbarga and Bijapur airport projects and has drafted a cabinet note which is now before Minister Praful Patel.
After his approval, the draft note will be taken up by an inter-ministerial committee consisting of the ministers of finance, defence, aviation and law and the deputy chairman of Planning Commission. After being vetted by this committee, the note will be taken up by the cabinet committee on economic affairs for approval which is the final authority to clear the projects.
An official of the civil aviation ministry told Deccan Herald: “It is easier for us to clear these projects since financial issues are not involved in them. Unlike the Bangalore international airport, the Centre is not picking equity in these projects.”
While the Hassan airport is being implemented by Jupiter Aviation and Logistics Limited, the seven-day government of BJP gave approval for the Gulbarga and Shimoga projects to be built by Maytas Infra Limited, a Hyderabad-based private infrastructure development and construction firm on private public partnership (PPP) model. The Bijapur airport will also be developed on PPP model and tenders will be called soon to select the project developer.
22/12/07 B S Arun/Deccan Herald

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