Thiruvananthapuram: A high-level meeting will be convened in the capital city on Monday by the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation to discuss and overcome the hurdles being faced in taking up further development of the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
The meeting, to be convened at the initiative of Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal, will be attended by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, and Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman V.K. Agarwal.
The delay on the part of the State government in acquiring and handing over land for the proposed domestic terminal and the future of the Thiruvananthapuram Airport Development Society, which has become defunct, will come up at the meeting, a top AAI official told The Hindu.
22/12/12 S Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
