Wednesday, November 19, 2014

‘No need for more world-class airports’

New Delhi: The airports at Bhopal, Raipur and Indore would have to wait longer to get the ‘world class’ tag as the 17 existing international airports are nowhere near realising projected traffic volumes, the Planning Commission has told the Prime Minister.
In a presentation to Modi on Wednesday on the achievements vis-a-vis targets for the infrastructure sectors so far, the panel said that adding three more to that list is needless.
“Out of 17 international airports, five have only a small volume of traffic. Airports with adequate traffic potential only will be made into international ones. These three are not being declared as international airports,” according to the presentation made to the Prime Minister.
19/11/14 Priyadarshi Siddhanta/Indian Express
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