The Hindu.com
Staff Correspondent
386.6 acres of land is required, according to master plan of Airports Authority of India
NITTY-GRITTY: Senior officials of Airports Authority of India talking to Minister Basavaraj Horatti (second from left) in Hubli on Thursday. M.S. Srikar, Deputy Commissioner and Pralhad Joshi, MP, are seen.
HUBLI: A three-member team of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) visited the airport here on Thursday to conduct a joint survey along with officials of the State Revenue Department for the proposed expansion of the airport.
The team comprising I.N. Murthy, deputy general manager (Planning), S. Biswas, deputy general manager (Engineering) and M.N. Rao, deputy general manager (Architecture) did a preliminary survey of the airport on Thursday. They also held discussions in this regard with Primary and Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti; Pralhad Joshi, MP; and Dharwad Deputy Commissioner M.S. Srikar.
Residential areas
"The AAI team has been asked to give details of the land required for completing the technical requirements. While we have vacant land on one side of the existing airport, there are some residential areas on the other side. Our efforts will be to avoid residential areas as far as possible," Mr. Srikar told The Hindu .
The AAI has already prepared the master plan for transforming the Hubli airport into an all-weather airport, for which it requires 386.6 acres of land.
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