Kolkata: It's been over a year since the secondary runway at Kolkata airport was extended to allow bigger planes to fly in and out of the city when the primary runway is not in operation. A rapid exit taxiway was also built to allow planes to vacate the primary runway soon after touchdown. But both facilities have been lying idle due to bureaucratic red tape.
While minor obstacles like coconut trees and cellphone towers in the flight path of the extended runway are yet to be removed, the taxiway has not been commissioned yet because a cartographer is yet to submit its drawing for publication in a manual that is circulated in the aviation industry.
01/01/12 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
