Land acquisition for the expansion of the Madurai airport runway will be completed in two weeks while work on crucial development projects such as underpass and terminal building expansion will be speeded up so as to complete them before the end of 2022, finance minister P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan has said.
He was speaking to reporters after holding a review meeting on airport development along with commercial taxes minister P Moorthy at the district collectorate on Monday. The meeting was also attended by collector Aneesh Sekhar, corporation commissioner K P Karthikeyan and airport director S Senthil Valavan. The minister said the state government will take up the construction of the underpass as a national highway is passing through the proposed runway expansion site. The fund required for the project will be spent by the government. “We recently took the pending development works at Madurai airport to the chief minister. He has given his assent. The land acquisition work was pending for the last seven to eight years. It did not gain momentum even after the 2016 elections,” he said.
Thiagarajan said that runway expansion will help Madurai airport handle bigger aircraft. As the developmental work progresses, they will take measures to get international status for the airport, which is a long-pending demand.
29/06/21 Times of India
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