Gaya airport to be developed as govt refuses land for Patna

Patna: With Patna’s Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport unable to get more land the Airport Authority of India has shifted its attention to Gaya International Airport, which is situated only five kilometres away from the pilgrim town of Bodh Gaya.
The Gaya International Airport, nearly four times bigger than the Patna airport is likely to be developed as a standby to the Kolkata airport to divert planes in case of any problem at the Kolkata airport.
The decision follows the Nitish Kumar government’s refusal to provide land for a new airport at Patna.
Patna airport has 254 acres of land while Gaya 954 acres and the process for acquiring another 100 acres of land for the runway expansion is in an advanced stage. Another 100 acres of land of the Gaya airport is under encroachment, which needs to be removed.
Gaya district magistrate Sanjay Kumar, was quoted in a report in the Times of India as saying that land from four different revenue villages are being acquired for the runway expansion and the acquisition process for two of the four revenue villages has already been completed.
15/08/10 Bihar Times

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