Land acquisition for Chennai airport begins

Chennai: State highways department officials on Tuesday began the process of acquiring a portion of GST Road in front of the Chennai airport, as part of the ongoing expansion, by demolishing a portion of the footpath. The exercise will be completed in a week.
To ensure smooth demolition for the entry and exit ways, all vehicles, including MTC buses going towards Guindy on the road beneath the flyover were told to take the flyover from Monday night. Separate entry and exit ways are to built for the expanded international and domestic terminals. Highways officials said 76 metres of land (length-wise) would be acquired for the international terminal and 40 metres of land for the domestic terminal. The land-acquisition exercise also includes levelling the entry and exit points (now on the elevated surface) with GST Road.
"We will also acquire 2.1 metres of land (width-wise) in front of the airport for the entry and exit for the new terminals and hand it over to the Airports Authority of India (AAI)," a state highways official told TOI.
01/02/12 Times of India

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