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With the authorities gearing up for the ‘validation flight’ astatine the Greenfield International Airport astatine Bhogapuram successful December to trial and certify airdrome attack and departure procedures for aircraft, the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) has acceptable a caller deadline of May 2026 to implicit the 7 maestro program roadworthy projects.
The seven-road task spanning 26.72 km requires coordination betwixt the GVMC, Roads & Buildings, Panchayat Raj, Forests, and backstage landowners who person parted their stretches for the projects.
According to sources, the roadworthy projects person slowed down owed to onshore acquisition challenges, with the toughest hurdle being the acquisition of 75 acres.
Compensation options see currency payments, alternate sites, and transferable improvement rights (TDRs). So far, lone a fewer landowners person agreed to the compensation done TDRs.
The 7 roads are being constructed astatine an estimated outgo of Rs. 156 crore, including CSR funds from the firm companies. These roads include: An 8 km roadworthy from Adivivaram BRTS junction to Gandigundam (Rs. 40 crore), awaiting wood clearance; a 2.2 km roadworthy from Anandapuram NH to Gambhiram Reservoir, a 1.7 km enlargement from Shivashakti Nagar to the VUDA Haritha task (Rs. 7.65 crore); a 1.4 km enlargement from Paradeshipalem to Gambhiram (Rs. 5.04 crore); a 3.83 km roadworthy from Nerallavalasa to Tallavalasa (Rs. 24 crore); a 3 km widening from Boyapalem Junction to Kapuluppada (Rs. 15 crore); widening of 6.32-km roadworthy from Chippada to Polipilli (Rs. 37.92 crore).
These roads are designed to easiness postulation connected the nationalist road and supply quicker entree for passengers from Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, and Srikakulam districts to the caller airport.
Further, plans are afoot to widen 15 interior roads for amended connectivity astatine an estimated outgo of Rs. 390 crore. A projected six-lane formation corridor connecting Beach Road successful Visakhapatnam to the airdrome is nether development, with the Detailed Project Report (DPR) finalised.
Four elevated corridors person besides been proposed, linking the Aganampudi-Lankelapalem country to Kommadi.
According to the accusation disposable with the VMRDA officials, backstage onshore indispensable beryllium acquired from 348 owners, who volition beryllium issued transferable improvement rights (TDR) bonds arsenic compensation.
“So far, we person issued 155 TDRs retired of 348. We volition wide the remainder soon. Only vegetation clearance and archetypal instauration enactment person been completed. None of the roadworthy widenings is ready. Permission from the Forest Department is required for the patches successful the mediate of immoderate roads. However, we are connected the close way to implicit the enactment wrong the deadline,” said a VMRDA official.
Speaking toThe Hindu, VMRDA Chairman M.V. Pranav Gopal said, “Despite the challenges, we are determined to implicit these 7 roads connecting Visakhapatnam and Bhogapuram airdrome earlier the home operations begin. We person acceptable a deadline of May 2026 to implicit the works.”
On the different hand, sources said that the airport’s advancement is up of schedule, with 90% of the halfway gathering works completed. Around 97% of the runway works person been finished and 92% of the taxiways works person been completed. The ‘validation flight’ is scheduled for December, they said.
What is validation flight?
A ‘validation flight’ is captious for investigating and certifying airdrome attack and departure procedures for aircraft. It is fundamentally a trial formation to guarantee that the landing and departure procedures, infrastructure readiness, and navigational and connection systems for the caller runway and airdrome comply with regulatory and information standards.
