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20 Airports undergoing development

Twenty national and international airports across the country are being developed/upgraded/improved. This information was given to the Lok Sabha by the Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel. Various projects relating to construction and extension of terminal buildings extension and strengthening of runways and associated works, construction of cargo complex etc. have been undertaken on requirement basis at Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Dibrugarh, Gaya, Ahmedabad, Porbandar, Surat, Vadodara, Srinagar, Mangalore, Bangalore, Calicut, Agatti, Khajuraho, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Amritsar, Trichy, Madurai and Kolkata airports. Target set for completion of development work is March, 2005 for Khajuraho, June 2005 for Hyderabad, Porbandar, Mumbai, Amritsar and Coimbatore, July 2005 for Ahmedabad and Vadodara, September 2005 for Trichy, October 2005 for Mangalore, December 2005 for Vishakhapatnam, Dibrugarh, Gaya, Surat and Calicut, June 2006 for Madurai, September 2006 for Agatti, December 2006 for Srinagar and Kolkata airports. Besides, construction of building for the GAGAN project has also been undertaken at the Bangalore airport for which the target set for completion is December 2005.

Fund allocated and fund released upto January 2005 in crores of rupees for the airports are: Hyderabad (69.69, 34.00), Vishakhapatnam (159.00, 55.37), Dibrugarh (14.00, 0.00), Gaya (44.52, 23.94), Ahmedabad (46.09, 18.96), Porbandar (8.72, 3.04), Surat (17.73, 2.33), Vadodara (24.75, 3.73), Srinagar (565.57, 2.79), Mangalore (40.60, 9.48), Bangalore (27.89, 1.40), Calicut (48.45, 3.58), Agatti (5.90, 0.00), Khajuraho (21.78, 16.29), Mumbai (112.81, 12.72), Amritsar (79.27, 55.11), Coimbatore (20.84, 8.67), Trichy (25.93, 2.08), Madurai (35.25, 0.00) and Kolkata (14.58, 8.50) respectively.

20 Airports undergoing development

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