The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is expected to complete the airport-side upgrade of 35 non-metro airports by end-December 2009.
The modernisation of the city-side development is part of the upgrade programme for the 35 non-metro airports in India by 2010.
Every airport has two sides. One is the city side, which has parking space, hotel, restaurants and other amenities, while the airport side includes everything inside the airport. AAI is also planning to develop the city side of 24 airports, including Jaipur and Udaipur in Rajasthan, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Amritsar in Punjab, on a PPP basis. AAI is likely to develop the city side on the PPP basis at the airports where it has got land.
Currently, consultants are working on the PPP structure, to be used for these projects, and they are expected to submit their report by end-July 2009. After the submission of the report, RfQs are likely to be invited for the proposed projects.
In 2006, AAI planned to spend around Rs 6,440 crore on modernisation of 35 airports, including Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Amritsar, Guwahati (Assam), Jaipur, Lucknow , Patna (Bihar), Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Chandigarh and Pune (Maharashtra).
Source : ProjectsToday
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