Tata, Reliance Energy among bidders for Amritsar airport development

Mumbai: Several Indian firms, including some large conglomerates, and foreign companies are in the running to develop the international airport at Amritsar in Punjab which one aviation analyst calls “a valuable airport” because of its location and the number of airlines flying to it, a function of the huge non-resident Indian (NRI) population that has roots in that part of the country.
Among the initial bidders for the project are the Tata group, Reliance Energy Ltd, Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), Zurich Airport, Vienna Airport, Gammon Infrastructure, Emaar MGF Ltd, K Raheja group, DS Constructions Ltd, Maytas Infra Ltd, Nagarjuna Construction Ltd, General Electric, DLF Ltd, Unitech Ltd, the GMR group and the GVK group.
The project includes commercial operation and maintenance of the airport terminal spread across 41,000 sq. m and the so-called city side development covering 30 acres.
The Tata group has bid for the project along with Singapore’s Changi Airport while L&T has teamed up with Zurich Airport, said an official overseeing the bidding process at the state-owned Airports Authority of India who did not wish to be identified.
08/01/08 P.Manoj and P.R.Sanjai/Livemint

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