West Bengal to get its first aerotropolis

Kolkata: West Bengal is all set to get its first aerotropolis— an urban infrastructure with an industrial hub built around an airport — that will also pave the way for the state to have a second airport at Dhupjhuri near Durgapur.
An agreement to develop the Rs 10,000 crore project over an area of 2,300 acres was signed between the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) and the Bengal Aerotropolis Pvt Ltd (BAPL) on Friday in presence of State Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen.
Besides having an airport, the aerotropolis will comprise aviation-related infrastructure like an aviation academy; night-parking facility to ease the traffic from Kolkata’s Dum Dum airport and a maintenance, repair and overhaul facility. There are also plans to build an industrial park with factories, office parks, IT park, institutional area, with a hospital, market, school, theme park, community centre and housing.
A lot, however, will depend on the acquisition of land for this project, as the state government has already burnt its fingers in acquiring land in Singur and Nandigram.
19/01/08 Kolkata Newsline

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