Mattannur (Kannur): The undulating terrain of the vast extent of land near here where work is going on at a hectic pace for construction of the Kannur international airport is changing rapidly with large earthmoving equipment at work levelling the area and hundreds of labourers and technical staff working day and night to complete the project by the scheduled completion date of May next year.
Officials of Kannur International Airport Ltd. (KIAL) and Larsen and Toubro, which has been awarded the Rs.694-crore engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract for developing the runway and the Rs.498-crore passenger terminal building (PTB), were optimistic that the trial landing at the new airport will be in December-January as planned and that the commercial operation can begin in May next year.
Nearly 50 per cent of the earth work, including cutting and filling, involving 190 lakh cubic metres of earth has been completed and the work for constructing the airport apron is nearing completion.
“If the monsoon is proper and if there is no stoppage of works due to contingency situation, the project will be completed as per schedule,” KIAL Managing Director G. Chandramouli told The Hindu . The work is now progressing at a rapid pace to catch up with the loss of nearly 85 days when the blasting work had to be stopped at the site due to local protests, he said.
26/03/15 Mohamed Nazeer/The Hindu
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Officials of Kannur International Airport Ltd. (KIAL) and Larsen and Toubro, which has been awarded the Rs.694-crore engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract for developing the runway and the Rs.498-crore passenger terminal building (PTB), were optimistic that the trial landing at the new airport will be in December-January as planned and that the commercial operation can begin in May next year.
Nearly 50 per cent of the earth work, including cutting and filling, involving 190 lakh cubic metres of earth has been completed and the work for constructing the airport apron is nearing completion.
“If the monsoon is proper and if there is no stoppage of works due to contingency situation, the project will be completed as per schedule,” KIAL Managing Director G. Chandramouli told The Hindu . The work is now progressing at a rapid pace to catch up with the loss of nearly 85 days when the blasting work had to be stopped at the site due to local protests, he said.
26/03/15 Mohamed Nazeer/The Hindu
