Work on Chennai's new airport terminals to be delayed

Chennai: The new domestic and international terminals that are to come up at the Chennai Airport by March this year are likely to get delayed by over nine months, if one were to go by the cold war between the contracting company CCCL and the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
A war of words over unkept commitments and failure to provide approvals is now on between CCCL and IPM-Lahmeyer International, the project management consultants appointed by the AAI. AAI officials are pressing CCCL to ensure that the work goes on 24X7 by employing labourers in multiple shifts to complete the project at least by July if not March - the earlier deadline. “Since the last few months, we have been instructing the contractors to multiply their workforce, but for almost for an year they haven’t been working on multiple shifts,” an airport source revealed.
For its part, CCCL blamed AAI for the delay. “AAI has been lax in giving us the necessary approvals and decisions for certain sections of the project, which is delaying all the works. Bills and payments are also being delayed for no reason. Chunks of money have been pending for over a year now, yet we have executed those works. We refuse to go forward until AAI gives us their approval for rates in writing as that is a key reason why most of our payments have been held up,” an executive in CCCL revealed.
19/01/11 Mamta Todi/ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011, New Jan 2011