Environment Ministry allows preparation of ToR for seven water aerodromes in Andhra Pradesh

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The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has fixed the greenish awesome to the Andhra Pradesh Airports Development Corporation Limited (APADCL) to hole the Terms of Reference (ToR) for 7 h2o aerodromes successful the State.

This facilitates Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and further processing of proposals by the AP Pollution Control Board. 

APADCL MD C.V. Praveen Aditya told The Hindu that an adept appraisal committee of the MoEF&CC agreed to the mentation of the ToR, but taxable to definite conditions, and that a full of 10 locations person been identified. Steps were being taken to behaviour the mandatory nationalist proceeding astatine the earliest.

No-objection certificates person to beryllium obtained wherever required, including from the Navy astatine the projected tract successful Visakhapatnam.

The ToR volition present beryllium prepared for h2o aerodromes astatine the Prakasam barrage successful Vijayawada, Srisailam dam, Lambasingi, Rushikonda (Visakhapatnam), Kakinada, Jalaput (Sileru) and Gandikota.

Three much h2o aerodromes person been planned successful Konaseema district, and astatine Tirupati and Araku.

Published - December 11, 2025 02:36 p.m. IST

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