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Thursday, 4 December 2014

UPA privatization move nixed, PPP to take off at airport

Ahmedabad:  The only international airport in the state Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport will now be developed on a public- private partnership model. This move comes after the NDA-led government scrapped the privatization of six airports which was initiated by last UPA government in July 2013.

Central government has cancelled the requests for qualification (RFQs) for process for modernising six airports at Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur, Guwahati, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.


Minister of state for civil aviation Mahesh Sharma in a written reply in Rajya Sabha said that government plans to take up development and modernisation of the airports at Ahmedabad and Jaipur through the PPP model, though the RFQs for them have not been issued yet.
Read news in full 30/11/14 Piyush Mishra/Times of India

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