NEWS| Delhi, Chennai to be operationalised as airline hubs this fiscal

As part of a detailed exercise undertaken to finalise targets for key infrastructure sectors for the fiscal, an airline hub policy is to be finalised and the Delhi and Chennai airports would be operationalised as hubs in FY ’13. The exercise was undertaken at a meeting held yesterday by Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, Government of India, and attended by Ministers and Secretaries of the key infrastructure Ministries of Power, Roads, Shipping, Civil Aviation and Coal. According to a statement, work on the Itanagar airport is to be started by the Airports Authority of India, and the total investment in AAI projects will be Rs 2,100 crore. Additionally, three new Greenfield projects will be awarded and will be located in Navi Mumbai, Goa and Kannur (Kerala). New international airports will also be declared in three or four of the following locations this year: Lucknow, Varanasi, Coimbatore, Tiruchi and Gaya. “By end-July 2012, additional PPP projects would be finalised for 10-12 existing airports and for 10-12 Greenfield airports. These would be awarded during the year,” the statement said. Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in airport operations are also to be explored.

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