Report by Orissadiary correspondent; Bhubaneswar: Airports Authority of India (AAI) seeks 800 acres of land to set up airport in Orissa’s Jharsguda. This was said by AAI chairman, VP Agarwal at Bhubaneswar.
On this regard Agarwal meets Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday at Bhubaneswar. Agarwal was here to inaugurate a new parking lot at Biju Patnaik airport here in the capital city. He also informed that AAI likely to invest Rs 150 crores in Biju Patnaik airport for the establishment of a new terminal building at Bhubaneswar. The project would make the Biju Patnaik airport a major airport in eastern India and a viable alternative to the one at Kolkatta. Moreover, work for the proposed terminal building start from April next year he added. The new terminal building would be designed to accommodate 1000 passengers and it would be centrally air-conditioned.
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