The feasibility report of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which has suggested that a second airport for the city could come up on 5,000 acres at Sriperumbudur, was submitted to the State government on Saturday. A copy of the report was handed over by Airports Authority of India (AAI) Chairman V.P. Agarwal to Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi.
Giving details about his meeting with the Chief Secretary, Mr. Agarwal told that the AAI had also informed the State government that it was ready to execute the project on its own. In the first phase, the AAI would spend Rs. 5,000 crore to develop the runway, terminal buildings and other facilities at the new airport as per a report in The Hindu by P. Oppili “The State government has to decide whether to have a second airport or to create a parallel runway at the existing airport,” he said.
When the State government expressed its concern over the delay in the commissioning of the two new terminal buildings, the Chairman assured the State officials that the new domestic terminal would be ready by December 31 this year and the international terminal by end of January next year. The assurance, which the AAI had already given to the Parliamentary Standing Committee Chairman Sitaram Yechury, would be honoured by the AAI, Mr. Agarwal said.
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