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Thursday 20 August 2015

PM jettisons plan to upgrade Chennai, Kolkata airports

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi has shot down the civil aviation ministry’s move to upgrade Kolkata and Chennai airports on public-private partnership (PPP). With this, the number of airports proposed for privatisation has come down to two – Jaipur and Ahmedabad.

With this, however, the scope of work at Jaipur and Ahmedabad would now be limited to maintenance and operation of terminal buildings.

State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) would invite fresh request for qualification (RFQ) applications.


An official in the ministry said in a review meeting last month, the PM cold-shouldered the PPP model for the two metro airports, suggesting that AAI had already invested significantly in their modernisation. The official did not want to be identified.
Read news in full 16/08/15 Nirbhay Kumar/mydigitalfc.com

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