Decks cleared for Dibrugarh airport modernisation

Dibrugarh: With the Army authority at New Delhi clearing the last hurdle in the modernisation of the Dibrugarh Airport at Mohanbari here on Monday, the decks have been cleared for further modernisation of the airport. Assam has three civil airports, one each at Guwahati, Dibrugarh and North Lakhimpur while others at Jorhat, Silchar and Tezpur belong to the Indian Air Force, with “civil enclaves”. These civil enclaves and the civil airports at Guwahati, Dibrugarh and North Lakhimpur (Lilabari) are administered by the Airports Authoirity of India (AAI).
According to the AAI chairman, V P Agrawal, the Dibrugarh Airport would soon have a longer runway to enable operation of larger and heavier aircraft. Presently, the airport here has a 7500 feet runway. This would be made 9000 feet long by February next year. The airport would be equipped with modern night landing facilities, two aerobridges and a cargo terminal. Work on lengthening the runway is likely to commence in October this year. He conveyed this to the AGP general secretary, Sarbananda Sonowal, in the course of a meeting at New Delhi this afternoon.
The runway expansion project took several years as Defence land had to be transferred to the AAI to enable the construction work.
07/07/10 Ron Duarah/Assam Tribune

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Categories: Airports Jul 2010