Jodhpur: In a major development towards expansion of Jodhpur Civil Airport, 37 acres possessed by the Jodhpur Air Force Station was handed over to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Tuesday. In exchange, the IAF has been allotted a similar size of land parcel by Jodhpur Municipal Corporation.Defence Estate Officer (Jodhpur Circle) Abhinav Singh said the Air Force dismantled all its establishments on this land before finally handing over this land parcel to the civil airport for expansion.
“In all, 2.42 acres is forest land and for the diversion of this land, the AAI would be undertaking procedure according to the conditions of MoU,” said Singh.
This land will facilitate the airport to further expand its facilities to accommodate more passenger planes.
This transfer of land is the result of an MoU signed in 2017 among various stakeholders as per which, 37 acres of land was to be transferred by the IAF to the airport in return of same size land to the Air Force by JMC.
Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who contributed in accelerating the process of the transfer of land so that the required expansion of the civil airport could be done fast, said that taxiway and apron have already been built and with this transfer of land now, the AAI will begin the construction of a terminal building.
“This expansion will help in the parking of 9-12 passenger planes as against four planes currently and about 500 passengers at the airport at a time,” Shekhawat said.
20/05/21 Times of India
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