Construction of Boeing’s MRO depot in Nagpur set to begin

Nagpur: Work for the construction of the Boeing Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) depot in Nagpur’s MIHAN (Multimodal International Hub Airport at Nagpur) SEZ area is expected to start within two months.
“Finally, Air India and Boeing have got down to designing the MRO. The work for its construction is most likely to start in the next one or two months,” managing director of Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), the nodal agency developing MIHAN, R C Sinha, told The Indian Express. Boeing had announced, amid much fanfare in Nagpur about four years ago, that the Rs 500-crore project would set up the MRO as part of India’s deal for purchase of a fleet of aircraft from the aviation giant. The project, envisaged to bring many ancillaries and business opportunities to Nagpur, however, made little headway, leading to media speculation that Boeing was dragging its feet or was planning to pull out of Nagpur. Boeing (India) Chairman Dinesh Keskar, however, had, all through, been refuting the reports and reaffirming his company’s commitment to set up the project at Nagpur. Sources, however, always maintained that uncertainty about handing over of the Nagpur airport to MADC and public spats between Nagpur MP Vilas Muttemwar and Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel had made Boeing nervous about Nagpur as venue.
02/10/10 Vivek Deshpande/Indian Express

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