Puducherry: Commercial flights are scheduled to resume operations from the? airport here from Oct 10.
The runway length of the airport has been extended from 1222 metres to 1482 metres and? night landing facilities have been installed. A new terminal building which can handle 300 passengers is under consideration, said Rajavelu.
It is expected that the Airport Authority of India will complete all work by December. These works had been taken up following a memorandum of understanding between government of Puducherry and Airports Authority of India on June 16, 2007 for expansion of Puducherry Airport in two phases. Phase -I was the extension of the runway by 260 metres to enable landing of ATR aircraft along with ground support facilities. Land 19.92 hectares of land was acquired in Puduchery at a cost of `18.95 crore and handed over to AAI on February 25, 2007 for first phase development.
Phase II comprising the extension of an additional 1100 metres of runway to facilitate operating large Jet Aircraft by acquiring another 200 acres of adjacent land in the state of Tamil Nadu.
So far the government had spent Rs 18.95 crore for land acquisition? and `9.83 crores for construction of a box culvert for the sewage pipe lines crossing the runway.
04/08/11 IBN Live
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