Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar: The state general administration (GA) department has asked the Koraput district collector to identify 310 acres of land for development of an airport at Jeypore.
The direction from the department comes after the Airport Authority of India (AAI) recently submitted the pre-feasibility report on Jeypore airstrip spread over 60 acres of land.
"One of the preliminary requirements of the report is 310 acres of a single patch land with good road connection and without any natural barrier", Premananda Khuntia, joint secretary, GA department wrote to the collector.
It may be noted that a technical team of AAI had visited Jeypore in January this year for pre-feasibility study for developing the air strip into an airport.
"The exercise for identification of 310 acres has already started. We will be submitting the report to the district collector soon", said an official of Koraput district administration.
10/04/13 Business Standard
