New Delhi: State-owned Airports Authority of India will develop 50 new low-cost airports across 11 states.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the decision was taken at a meeting held by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to finalise infrastructure project targets for 2013-14.
Apart from 50 new low cost small airports, the government has decided to go ahead with eight greenfield airports.
The greenfield airports will come up at Navi Mumbai, Juhu (Mumbai), Goa, Kannur, Chakan (Pune), Sriperumbudur, Bellary and Raigarh.
Two new international airports, at Bhubaneswar in Odisha and Imphal in Manipur, will also be taken up in the current fiscal.
The government also gave its nod to a proposal to hand over airport operations and maintenance through PPP contracts at various AAI-owned airports.
The 50 low-cost airports will come up in: Vijayawada, Nellore, Kurnool, Kadapa, Nizamabad, Tirupati, Anantapur and Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh; Dhanbad, Bokaro and Hazaribagh in Jharkhand; Muzaffarpur, Chapra and Sasaram in Bihar; Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Firozpur in Punjab; Agra, Allahabad, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh; Tezu, Momdila and Along in Arunachal Pradesh; Silchar, Jorhat and Tezpur in Assam; Gwalior, Singrauli, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Jabalpur, Sidhi and Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh; Brahmapur, Raurkela and Kendujhar in Odisha; Ajmer, Kota, Bhilwada and Alwar in Rajasthan; and Kolhapur, Nasik, Jalgaon, Solapur and Amarawati in Maharashtra.
IANS
