Kolkata: The N S C Bose International Airport in the city has registered a significant drop in passenger and freight movement in the just concluded 2012-13 fiscal year ending March.
This at a time when the airport has recently thrown open a Rs 2,325-crore new passenger terminal with an installed capacity to handle 20 million (two crore) passengers per annum.
Airport insiders are blaming the overall slump in the country's economy and also lack of any major industrial activity in West Bengal for the decline.
According to data fetched from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) headquarters in New Delhi, in 2012-13, Kolkata airport handled a little over 1.01 crore passengers compared to 1.03 crore passengers the previous year. The net decline in this case is about 1.34 lakh passengers. Similarly, freight movement has dropped from a little over 1.25-lakh metric ton (MT) in 2011-12 to 1.22-lakh MT in 2012-13.
14/06/13 bappaditya paul/Statesman
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This at a time when the airport has recently thrown open a Rs 2,325-crore new passenger terminal with an installed capacity to handle 20 million (two crore) passengers per annum.
Airport insiders are blaming the overall slump in the country's economy and also lack of any major industrial activity in West Bengal for the decline.
According to data fetched from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) headquarters in New Delhi, in 2012-13, Kolkata airport handled a little over 1.01 crore passengers compared to 1.03 crore passengers the previous year. The net decline in this case is about 1.34 lakh passengers. Similarly, freight movement has dropped from a little over 1.25-lakh metric ton (MT) in 2011-12 to 1.22-lakh MT in 2012-13.
14/06/13 bappaditya paul/Statesman
