Quiet work on airport plan

New Delhi: The central government is quietly working on Calcutta airport’s revamp even as ideological battles are fought over whether airports should be modernised by private parties or in the public sector.
Under the plan, costing Rs 750 crore, a two-phase modernisation will be carried out at the airport. The components of the project are a fully automated international cargo terminal, expansion and strengthening of the runways to be able to take bigger aircraft and addition of a second module to the domestic terminal.
Aeroports de Paris’s engineering and architecture arm, which had been mandated to prepare the plan, has submitted proposals for a 50-foot-high steel and glass international airport building.
Once the design is finalised, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) will float tenders in two to three months.
28/05/06 Jayanta Roy Chowdhury/Calcutta Telegraph

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