{"id":473,"date":"2007-08-21T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=473"},"modified":"2007-08-21T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:41:46","slug":"aviation-plan-for-india-why-no-mention-of-rourkela-and-jharsuguda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/473","title":{"rendered":"Aviation plan for India: Why no mention of Rourkela and Jharsuguda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=30204\">a PIB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">The Government  is committed to create a network of world-class airports in the country with a  view to establishing India as a global aviation hub.<span>  <\/span>Measures have been taken to augment capacity  as a result of which additional capacity to handle 601.05 lakh passengers per  annum on the domestic sector and 301.80 lakh passengers per annum on international  sector is under construction and is likely to be commissioned within the next  two \u2013 three years. This information was given by Shri Praful Patel in a written  reply to a question.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span>             <\/span>The Government has undertaken a number of major projects in pursuance of  the above objective; to develop, expand, modernize the airports which include  <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Restructuring of Delhi and Mumbai airport, through  Joint Venture Route, for upgradation and modernization, at an estimated cost of  Rs. 8900 crores and Rs. 7000 crores respectively;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Modernizing and expansion of Kolkata and Chennai  airports by the Airports Authority of India (AAI);<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Construction of new Greenfield airports at Hyderabad  and Bangalore at a cost of Rs. 2480 and Rs. 1930 crores respectively.<span>   <\/span>Operation of these airports is expected to be commenced by mid 2008.<span>  <\/span>Greenfield airport at Pekyong, Sikkim  at an estimated cost of Rs. 320 crores has been approved.<span>  <\/span>In principle approval has also been accorded  to a new international airport at Navi Mumbai through Public Private Partnership  (PPP).<span>  <\/span>Greenfield airport is also being  envisaged at Mopa (Goa);<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Modernizing of select 35 non-metro airports at  an estimated cost of about Rs. 5000 crores.<span>  <\/span>The modernization process of these 35 non-metro airports is  expected to be completed by March 2010.<span>  <\/span>The  Terminal Building and Air Side works are being undertaken by the AAI while the  City Side development at selected 24 non-metro airports will be done through private  sector participation;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Upgradation of communication, navigation and surveillance  facilities;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">AAI has spent an amount of Rs. 3535 crores for  development\/ expansion\/modernization of airports during the 10<sup>th<\/sup> Five  Year Plan and a provision of Rs. 12434 crores has been made by the AAI in the  11<sup>th<\/sup> Five Year Plan for this purpose;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Government is encouraging Private Participation\/Investments  in airport infrastructure through the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP Route) further,  Government has also permitted 100% FDI, through automatic route, in Greenfield  airports;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">The airports are being constructed and developed  at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh; Shimoga, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Hassan and Karwar  in Karnataka, Kannur in Kerala; Chennai in Tamilnadu; Itanagar and Tawang in Arunachal  Pradesh; Chiethu in Nagaland; Pekyong in Sikkim; Kokrajhar in Assam; Greater Noida,  Agra in Uttar Pradesh; Ajmer (Kishangarh) and Kota in Rajasthan; Halwara in Punjab;  Surankote and Kishtwar in Jammu &amp; Kashmir; Durgapur in West Bengal; Sindhudurg,  Shirdi, Chakan and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">There are a large number of non-operational and  unused airports in the country belonging to the AAI, defence, state governments  and private licensees.<span>  <\/span>The Government  is keen to promote development of such airports and make them operational to meet  the growing need of airport infrastructure in the country.<span>   <\/span>The airstrips at Pant Nagar, Kamalpur, Kailash Ahar, Passighat, Tezu, Along,  Daparizo, Tura and Zero are being upgraded;<span>  <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">In coordination with the State Governments, the  AAI has decided to take up development works at the non-operational airports at  Akola, Cooch Behar, Kuddapah, Kolhapur, Mysore, Sholapur, Warangal, Surat and  Gondia \u2013 on the request of airlines and the State Governments.<span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from a PIB. The Government is committed to create a network of world-class airports in the country with a view to establishing India as a global aviation hub. Measures have been taken to augment capacity as a result of which additional capacity to handle 601.05 lakh passengers per annum on the domestic sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airports-and-air-connectivity-in-orissa","category-center-orissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}