AAI speeds up airport project in Arunachal Pradesh

The state civil aviation minister, Nakap Nalo, informed that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has fast-tracked the greenfield airport project at Hollongi in Arunachal Pradesh and it will be commissioned by 2022. The state government is extending support to the AAI for it. The construction work of the four-lane approach road for the airport, water and electricity connection, erection of boundary walls etc have already started. The tender process for construction of the airport terminal and runway which falls under the AAI has also been completed. In regards to the rehabilitation of project-affected people, Nalo informed that all the 156 families have been shifted to a new location. PM, during his visit to the state last year, laid the foundation stone for the construction of the airport. The project will be built by the AAI over an area of 320 hectares and once completed, it will accommodate narrow-body jets like the Airbus A321 in the first phase. The work has been awarded to Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Private Limited, an Ahmadabad-based construction firm following a tender process.