Chennai airport expansion: CM assures villagers

Chennai: Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday virtually made a fervent appeal to the people to extend support for the extension of the airport since it would be a paramount requirement for a growing metropolitan like Chennai.
“Everyone knows that I was the first person in Tamil Nadu to provide residential apartments in high-rise buildings for those who were living on pavements. But the government is now in a position to beg for land to expand the airport assuring the people that they will be given an alternative site,” the CM said.
Making this appeal while declaring open the Express Avenue, the biggest shopping mall in South India, he said though the government was thinking of developing Chennai on par with the other metropolises in the country, certain forces were acting as roadblocks.
Observing that even states smaller than Tamil Nadu had bigger airports, he said the State government was of the view that Chennai should have a bigger facility, at least next to the one in New Delhi.
31/08/10 ExpressBuzz

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