Even as the DGCA raised objections over the Sabarimala airport project proposal by Kerala government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the state assembly on Friday that the airport would be set up in a time-bound manner by including in the projects of priority of the state government.
Vijayan said that a reply would be given to the DGCA with the additional information sought by the regulatory body. The site for the proposed airport at Cheruvally, about 50 kilometres from Sabarimala, was identified after considering various locations based on the parameters for the airport.
The Chief Minister was replying to a calling attention motion on the airport project.
The DGCA recently raised a series of queries over the Sabarimala airport project proposal submitted by Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, which is the nodal agency for the project. The main objection was that the Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi international airports were only 110 kilometres and 88 kilometres respectively from the proposed site for the Sabarimala airport. As per Green Field airport policy, new airports should be 150 kilometres away from existing international airports.
Special officer for the airport project V Thulasidas had said that the queries by central agencies were only part of the normal process for approval for airports.
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(Published 08 October 2021, 09:04 IST)
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