Two Kerala airports to be expanded

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala will expand two of its international airports at Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode and set up a new one at Kannur.
The state's other international airports is at Kochi.
Work on the first phase of the Thiruvananthapuram airport on 27 acres will start this year. For the second phase, another 93 acres will be acquired, Law Minister M. Vijayakumar said here yesterday.
"The state government will provide another 137 acres for the development of the Kozhikode airport. For the proposed Kannur airport, 2,200 acres would be acquired,"he said. The central government recently gave the go-ahead for a new airport at Kannur.
Once the Kannur airport is ready, Kerala will be the only state with four international airports. The airport at Kochi is also the first airport in India that was developed with private-public partnership in the late '90s.
25/02/08 IANS/Gulf Times, Qatar

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