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The projected enlargement program of the operations of Puducherry Airport has gathered gait with the Revenue Department launching a survey of the onshore needed to beryllium acquired for the operation of a caller runway.
A Revenue squad led by Deputy Collector, North, Dayanand Tendulkar, who is besides the onshore acquisition serviceman for the project, connected Monday visited the Karuvadikkupam area, to measure the topography of the area.
Airport Director, Airports Authority of India, Puducherry K. Rajasekhar Reddy and members of the precocious constituted squad for carrying retired the State Social Impact Assessment (SSIA) astatine Karuvadikuppam Revenue Village ,were besides present.
The AAI would request astir 402 acres to conception a caller formation portion of 2, 300 metres for the cognition of wide-bodied aircraft. For the operation of a caller runway, 2, 300 m agelong and 45 m wide, the authorization would necessitate 217 acres successful Tamil Nadu and 185 acres successful Puducherry.
“We launched the survey connected Monday by visiting the spot wherever the sewage attraction works functions astatine Karuvadikuppam. The survey volition beryllium to find retired the interaction of onshore acquisition successful the area, including fig of houses and nationalist inferior structures needed to beryllium relocated from the task area. A nationalist proceeding volition besides beryllium conducted. We anticipation to implicit the SSIA by 2 months,” a elder serviceman told The Hindu.
The authorities has besides requested the Villupuram medication to expedite the onshore acquisition process successful the Tamil Nadu side. In January, the AAI had submitted a elaborate Land Plan Schedule to the Tourism Department for acquiring onshore for the operation of the caller runway. “We person been asked to velocity up the onshore acquisition process arsenic the authorities wanted to instrumentality up the airdrome enlargement task astatine the earliest,” said an officer.
