Mumbai: The Gujarat government expects a new airport in an ancient port city of Dholera in the state to take on Dubai as a global hub.
The Rs 1,000 crore project has been actively backed by the Narendra Modi government and has been envisaged when Modi was chief minister of Gujarat, said general manager, Dholera International Airport, a state-run company.
Dholera is located about 100 kilometers from the state capital of Ahmedabad and is a similar distance from the other key city of Vadodara. The town covers a total area of 920 square kilometres but its Wikipedia page claims it will be developed into a megacity by 2025, six times the size of Shanghai, the largest city by population in the world. Shanghai is spread across 6.340.5 square meters of municipal area. Dholera's page doesn't clarify how it will reach a several multiples of Shanghai's proportions.
Chavda said the Dholera airport will be an alternate to Ahmedabad which will be saturated in the next five years.
As to why it will make a better hub than Dubai, he said that a Heathrow-Dholera-Singapore flight will entail a distance than is 322 kilometers lesser than a Heathrow-Dubai-Singapore airport.
05/02/15 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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The Rs 1,000 crore project has been actively backed by the Narendra Modi government and has been envisaged when Modi was chief minister of Gujarat, said general manager, Dholera International Airport, a state-run company.
Dholera is located about 100 kilometers from the state capital of Ahmedabad and is a similar distance from the other key city of Vadodara. The town covers a total area of 920 square kilometres but its Wikipedia page claims it will be developed into a megacity by 2025, six times the size of Shanghai, the largest city by population in the world. Shanghai is spread across 6.340.5 square meters of municipal area. Dholera's page doesn't clarify how it will reach a several multiples of Shanghai's proportions.
Chavda said the Dholera airport will be an alternate to Ahmedabad which will be saturated in the next five years.
As to why it will make a better hub than Dubai, he said that a Heathrow-Dholera-Singapore flight will entail a distance than is 322 kilometers lesser than a Heathrow-Dubai-Singapore airport.
05/02/15 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
