Chennai: With the proposed greenfield airport at Sriperumbudur finding a place in the PM’s list of infra targets for 2013-14, Airports Authority of India (AAI) Chairman V P Agrawal said that if the State obliges, this airport “could be completed even before the one in Navi Mumbai”.
Agrawal explained that the ground was flat and ideal for constructing an airport, unlike in Navi Mumbai which will require more levelling work.
The PM’s report also outlined the fact that just like the existing Chennai airport in Meenambakkam, even this one will be modelled along the Public-Private-Participation (PPP) model. “This is ideal for us, but we are also constrained by the fact that there will be opposition,” he said.
On the the ongoing privatisation of the existing airport, he said, “we have had a lot of concerns after we privatised Delhi and the CAG has pointed out a whole list of problems that we have to fix. So we are going slow and steady with this airport.”
He confirmed that the tender process for taking charge of the existing terminal was far from starting.
29/06/13 Daniel Thimmayya/New Indian Express
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Agrawal explained that the ground was flat and ideal for constructing an airport, unlike in Navi Mumbai which will require more levelling work.
The PM’s report also outlined the fact that just like the existing Chennai airport in Meenambakkam, even this one will be modelled along the Public-Private-Participation (PPP) model. “This is ideal for us, but we are also constrained by the fact that there will be opposition,” he said.
On the the ongoing privatisation of the existing airport, he said, “we have had a lot of concerns after we privatised Delhi and the CAG has pointed out a whole list of problems that we have to fix. So we are going slow and steady with this airport.”
He confirmed that the tender process for taking charge of the existing terminal was far from starting.
29/06/13 Daniel Thimmayya/New Indian Express
