Mattannur: The earth work for developing the runway for the Kannur International Airport is progressing at a hectic pace even as the embankment works have been suspended since the onset of monsoon.
According to officials of Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL), the earth work, which started in March, has covered an area of 175 hectares out of the total 512 hectares.
The work by Larsen and Toubro (L&T), which has been awarded the Rs.694-crore engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract for developing the runway, is progressing as per schedule. Embankment works for ground-levelling would resume after the end of the monsoon, they said.
The project envisages the commissioning of the runway by May 2016.
‘‘It is a huge earth work, including cutting and filling, involving 234 lakh cubic metres (cum) of earth and nearly 10 per cent of the earth work is over by now,’’ KIAL Managing Director G. Chandramouli said.
He told The Hindu that construction of no other airport involved such a massive scale of earth work. Though the progress of the work was sluggish in March and April, it gathered momentum since then, he said.
16/06/14 Mohamed Nazer/The Hindu
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According to officials of Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL), the earth work, which started in March, has covered an area of 175 hectares out of the total 512 hectares.
The work by Larsen and Toubro (L&T), which has been awarded the Rs.694-crore engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract for developing the runway, is progressing as per schedule. Embankment works for ground-levelling would resume after the end of the monsoon, they said.
The project envisages the commissioning of the runway by May 2016.
‘‘It is a huge earth work, including cutting and filling, involving 234 lakh cubic metres (cum) of earth and nearly 10 per cent of the earth work is over by now,’’ KIAL Managing Director G. Chandramouli said.
He told The Hindu that construction of no other airport involved such a massive scale of earth work. Though the progress of the work was sluggish in March and April, it gathered momentum since then, he said.
16/06/14 Mohamed Nazer/The Hindu
