Gaya: Land owners of three revenue villages have virtually blocked the decade old plan to expand the Gaya airport and its run way to accommodate A-310 type of planes with 250 passenger capacity. The present shorter runway can only take type A-320 type of planes with 140 passenger capacity. The villagers want higher rate of compensation for their land.
Going by the statement of minister of state for civil aviation KC Venugopal made in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, the state government and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) are not on the same page as far as additional land and its cost is concerned. Whereas the minister's Rajya Sabha statement puts the land requirement at about 200 acres, the ongoing acquisition exercise is only for about 100 acres.
Moreover, the state government and the AAI differ on land cost. For more than a decade now, the state government wanted the AAI to foot the land bill, the airport authority, as, is apparent from the minister's Rajya Sabha statement wants land free of cost.
28/08/13 Abdul Qadir/Times of India
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Going by the statement of minister of state for civil aviation KC Venugopal made in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, the state government and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) are not on the same page as far as additional land and its cost is concerned. Whereas the minister's Rajya Sabha statement puts the land requirement at about 200 acres, the ongoing acquisition exercise is only for about 100 acres.
Moreover, the state government and the AAI differ on land cost. For more than a decade now, the state government wanted the AAI to foot the land bill, the airport authority, as, is apparent from the minister's Rajya Sabha statement wants land free of cost.
28/08/13 Abdul Qadir/Times of India
