Delay in land acquisition for expansion to be discussed
A
high-level meeting will be convened in the capital city on Monday by the Union
Ministry of Civil Aviation to discuss and overcome the hurdles being faced in
taking up further development of the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
The
meeting, to be convened at the initiative of Union Minister of State for Civil
Aviation K.C. Venugopal, will be attended by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy,
Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, and
Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman V.K. Agarwal.
The
delay on the part of the State government in acquiring and handing over land
for the proposed domestic terminal and the future of the Thiruvananthapuram
Airport Development Society, which has become defunct, will come up at the
meeting, a top AAI official told The
Hindu.
Besides
the Tourist Visa on Arrival (T-VoA) facility, the issues facing the Maintenance
Repair Overhaul (MRO) facility of Air India Charters Ltd. and Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Aviation Technology will figure in the meeting to be attended by
Minister for Airports and Ports K. Babu, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar, and
Mayor K. Chandrika.
The
proposal put forward by Airport Director V.N. Chandran to develop the premier
airport of the State as a multi-nodal hub and to create Aeropolis is also
expected to be discussed in the meeting. The high-level meting, the first in
the capital after Mr. Venugopal took charge of Civil Aviation, will discuss the
flight operations of the Air India Express, the low-cost arm of Air India. Joint
Secretaries in the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation Alok Sinha and Ashok Kumar
will attend the meeting.
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