Private parties may make non-metro terminals

With Leftists out of government's hair, private parties may finally get to develop the terminal building at non-metro airports.
But no such luck for interested bidders in the case of two metro airports of Kolkata and Chennai, where the government may go ahead with the Left stipulation of getting works done only by the state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI).
With the changed political equations, the ministry is veering around to the view that the Delhi-Mumbai model of airport modernisation is good enough for non-metro airports also. So instead of just parking and recreation facilities, private parties may, after all, get to bid for terminal development also.
A top ministry official said that the bids already called for the purpose are still valid and a decision should be taken in the next few weeks. Some of the top infrastructure developers are in the race for modernising Udaipur and Amritsar airports.
Consortia led by Reliance Energy, Fraport AG, Tata-Changi, Lanco and L&T have already been short listed as pre-qualified bidders for the Amritsar leg of modernisation. For Udaipur, the consortia shortlisted are led by Reliance Energy, Tata-Changi, L&T, Maytas Infra and GMR.
29/07/08 Sindhu Bhattacharya/DNA MONEY/Sify

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Categories: Airports Jul 2008