India to get its tallest ATC tower at IGI

New Delhi: The capital will soon have the country's tallest air traffic control (ATC) tower with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) finalizing the design of a 90-95-metre structure. The tower will be taller than the existing 60-metre ATC and the 72.5-metre Qutub Minar. The 112-metre Civic Centre on Minto Road will, however, remain Delhi's tallest building.
AAI chairman V P Agrawal said the new ATC was originally meant to come up by 2015-16, but had been brought forward by five years.
The new tower will have the latest equipment and many features will be a first for India. Along with the automation, the entire project will cost Rs 250-300 crore," he said.
The design has been drawn up by Hong Kong-based HOK International Ltd that gave AAI option of a central lift and crystal shapes. The authority chose the central lift. GMR Group chief G M Rao had said at T3's inauguration earlier this month that construction would begin in six months and will be over in two years.
The Delhi ATC software, Raytheon Auto Track-II, is currently being upgraded to Auto Track-III system that has several advanced features like generating automatic alerts if an aircraft heads to a no fly zone or is on a collision course with another plane.
11/07/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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