Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Govt plans city-side development at 24 airports

Government has plans to undertake city-side (areas surrounding airport building) development at 24 airports across the country, where food and recreation facilities would be available for passengers.

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel told Lok Sabha today that ten airports should be taken up for development in the first phase, which include Kolkata, Hyderabad (Begumpet), Vishakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow, Indore, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Guwahati and Jaipur.

Other 14 cities in the list are Trivandrum, Madurai, Mangalore, Khajuraho, Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Raipur, Vizag, Trichy, Varanasi, Agartala, Dehradun, Ranchi and Dimapur, he informed.

Some of the facilities expected to come up near the 24 airports are hotels, restaurants, convention centres, food court, flight kitchen, petrol pump, retail shops and cargo facilities, Patel said.

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