Nagpur: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has assured that work on Amravati and Akola airports would begin soon as the process of land acquisition is in final stages. CM told the legislative council on Wednesday that Airport Authority of India (AAI) had agreed to build both airports provided certain conditions were met.
Replying to a call attention motion moved by Vinod Tawde, leader of opposition, CM said that AAI wanted 60.7 hectare land belonging to Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV) and 34 hectare private land. "We have identified three possible areas in the PDKV campus adjoining the existing airport. The first is an agricultural trial land, the second has a research centre and environment centre and the third has a water body. We have told the university authorities that it can give us any of the three lands," he said.
The government has asked AAI to build the Belora airport at Amravati on the lines of the one at Jalgaon instead of by Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC).
19/12/13 Ashish Roy/Times of India
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Replying to a call attention motion moved by Vinod Tawde, leader of opposition, CM said that AAI wanted 60.7 hectare land belonging to Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV) and 34 hectare private land. "We have identified three possible areas in the PDKV campus adjoining the existing airport. The first is an agricultural trial land, the second has a research centre and environment centre and the third has a water body. We have told the university authorities that it can give us any of the three lands," he said.
The government has asked AAI to build the Belora airport at Amravati on the lines of the one at Jalgaon instead of by Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC).
19/12/13 Ashish Roy/Times of India
