Jammu: Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Raghav Langer Saturday chaired a coordination meeting to review progress of works regarding night landing of flights at Jammu Airport, expansion of airstrip, commissioning of parking area, expansion and other works at Civil Airport Jammu.
Director Airport Authority of India (AAI) gave a PowerPoint presentation and briefed the chair about the physical achievements of the works and bottlenecks.
The divisional commissioner directed the district administration to start the process for acquisition of 1044 kanal land for the construction of New Terminal at Beli-charana.
He also directed the concerned officers to kick start the process for giving the possession of remaining 17 kanal land out of 27 kanal land adjacent to CAT-1 area.
The 10 kanal land has already been taken over by AAI, which has been developed as the new car parking area. The new car parking with capacity of 150 cars would be operational from October this year.
Regarding the operationalisation of night landing of flights at Jammu Airport, the chair instructed the concerned departments to make proper arrangements for lighting and back up to facilitate smooth landing of the aircrafts.
The night landing facility is the runway approach lighting system, which includes a series of light bars with strobe lights installed at the end of the runway.
This runway system equipped with the Instrument Landing System (ILS) has already been installed and commissioned at Jammu Airport. Besides ILS, it is important to have lighting along the runway edge, so that pilots landing at night are able to make visual contact and align the aircraft with the centre of the runway.
The divisional commissioner also reviewed in detail progress on various components of expansion of Jammu Airport and directed the concerned departments to early complete the works executed by their respective departments.
The additional 1300 feet long airstrip work is scheduled to be completed by 31st August 2021.
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