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Race To Build Airport CityBy ugesh sarkar, Section Infrastructure
Turnkey contract majors L&T, HCC, Simplex and Tantia are among the firms that have bid for construction of the airport at the Andal aerotropolis. Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL) CEO Subrata Pal said tenders would be opened and the turnkey project contractor finalized by next month-end for work to begin in April.
"The initial concept design for the project has been frozen. We have received five-six bids for turnkey project tenders that were floated. Once the contractor is selected, work will begin on ground. The runway and a 4,00,000-passenger per annum capacity terminal building will be ready and operational by December 2011," Pal said. The site where the airport is to be located is within the 1,049 acre land that the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) has handed over to BAPL in two tranches. The total project area required for the airport township is 2,300 acre. The Rs 150-crore airport will be spread over 650 acres, with the remaining area accommodating business parks, logistics hubs, industrial parks, wholesale merchandise marts, information and communication technology complexes, hotels and entertainment centres, retail centres and residential apartments. Source: Times Of India Race to build airport city click On "Full story" for More....
"Once the airport is operational, it will act as a catalyst for the rest of the project. It will also spur investment in the region, like it has in similar projects around the world," said Changi Airports International Pte Ltd CEO Wong Woon Liong. Changi has a 25% stake in the Rs 10,000-crore project and has developed the airport's concept and design and will provide technical support. It will also monitor construction, do route plan modelling for flights connecting the airport and help manage the airport for a year.
"As of now, we plan to connect Durgapur to all major metros. They will be hopping flights via Kolkata and other cities," Pal said. The 3,300-metre runway can accommodate all aircraft below Airbus A-340 and Boeing B-747 and B-757. After the airport construction gets off the ground, BAPL will concentrate on the industrial zone that includes a science and technology park. The latter will comprise manufacturing units for electronic hardware, biotechnology and solar energy equipment. The second tranche of land was recently handed over to BAPL by West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) under a 99-year lease agreement signed between BAPL and WBIDC. The cumulative lease premium paid, so far, by BAPL is Rs 88.48 crore. The director of BAPL, Partho Ghosh, had earlier said that preliminary work for the project has already started. It may be noted that in October 2009, WBIDC handed over the first tranche of 533.51 acres required for the project to BAPL.
A unique and first of its kind rehabilitation package is being offered to landlosers. Besides this, the rehabilitation package also offers free vocational training at ITI, Durgapur, to one eligible person from each landlandloser's family. Training at ITI commenced on September 4 2009, and two batches consisting of 356 trainees are getting trained.
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