Amidst talks of Chennai’s second airport site being finalised at Parandur in Kancheepuram, the state government is now contemplating a new site between Kancheepuram and Cheyyar for the second airport.
According to a report by Sangeetha Kandavel and Sunitha Sekar in The Hindu, the file that was sent for signing to a top officer in the government came back without being signed, prompting the state government officials to consider a second option for the upcoming airport.
Following this, the Thiruvannamalai district collector has been told to conduct a preliminary land survey near Cheyyar. The new site, which will be around 75 kilometres from the existing airport at Chennai, is being considered since the government already has possession of around 1500 acres of land there. This would mean that the government would have to acquire the minimum possible land from private landowners. After the survey, the state government is planning to ask the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to conduct another study to see if this is a feasible option. The union ministry of Civil Aviation had specified that the second airport for Chennai would need at least 3500 acres of land to handle the growing passenger traffic in the city.
08/03/20 News Minute
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According to a report by Sangeetha Kandavel and Sunitha Sekar in The Hindu, the file that was sent for signing to a top officer in the government came back without being signed, prompting the state government officials to consider a second option for the upcoming airport.
Following this, the Thiruvannamalai district collector has been told to conduct a preliminary land survey near Cheyyar. The new site, which will be around 75 kilometres from the existing airport at Chennai, is being considered since the government already has possession of around 1500 acres of land there. This would mean that the government would have to acquire the minimum possible land from private landowners. After the survey, the state government is planning to ask the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to conduct another study to see if this is a feasible option. The union ministry of Civil Aviation had specified that the second airport for Chennai would need at least 3500 acres of land to handle the growing passenger traffic in the city.
08/03/20 News Minute
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