Pune: A team of technical experts from the Airports Authority of India's (AAI) headquarters in New Delhi is engaged in a slew of techno-feasibility studies related to the new site for the proposed Pune international airport project at Khed, off the Pune-Nashik highway, about 45 km from here.
The new site was finalised at a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a delegation of the state government led by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on November 13, 2013. This was after the AAI had recommended the site following a preliminary survey.
According to sources in the Pune divisional commissioner's office, a total of 1,250 hectare land has been finalised for the project. Some part of this land will be notified from the Khed special economic zone, while the remaining has been identified from three or four villages located nearby. Two parallel runways of about 4,000 metre each have been proposed for the project.
22/01/14 Vishwas Kothari/Times of India
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The new site was finalised at a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a delegation of the state government led by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on November 13, 2013. This was after the AAI had recommended the site following a preliminary survey.
According to sources in the Pune divisional commissioner's office, a total of 1,250 hectare land has been finalised for the project. Some part of this land will be notified from the Khed special economic zone, while the remaining has been identified from three or four villages located nearby. Two parallel runways of about 4,000 metre each have been proposed for the project.
22/01/14 Vishwas Kothari/Times of India
