The Tamil Nadu government has set the ball rolling for the second greenfield airport proposed near the city, by issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) to appoint a consultant for preparing a draft report and identify three potential sites near the city for the project, which was mooted seven years ago.Former chief minister J Jayalalithaa while releasing Tamil Nadu’s vision 2023 document in 2012 said that nearly ₹20,000 crore will be invested in the greenfield project to handle annually around 40 million passengers. According to the report, Gigi George, the developer, has said that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) cleared the site after inspection The greenfield airport will come up on 3,500 acres at an investment of Rs 4,500 crore The proposed complex will be 1.4 lakh sqm in phase one, 2.75 lakh sqm in phase two and 1.35 lakh sqm in phase three The move, the scale of which has not previously been reported, is part of a quiet and gradual production shift by Apple away from China. "On his death anniversary, tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi," Modi tweeted.The Kozhikode tragedy has once again brought into focus the short size of the Gaya airport runway. A proposed second airport for Chennai. Foxconn to expand India plant The Chennai airport is the fourth busiest airport in the country, handling 20.36 million passengers in 2017-18. Three sites — Sriperumbudur, Pattalam and Cheyyur — are now being considered, sources said. With Chennai airport’s air travel growing annually at 15% to 20%, a greenfield airport will be required in around seven to eight years. The airport will either be located on a 4800 acre site at Sriperumbudur, in Madurantakam or Gummidipoondi. You must login to keep earning daily check-in points* TimesPoints expire in 1 year from the day of creditFoxconn plans to invest up to $1 billion to expand a factory in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, where the Taiwanese contract manufacturer assembles Apple iPhones, two sources said.
Recently, music director Raghu Kunche announced on social media that he will be a part of Katha Nalini, a film based on the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.The Delhi international airport has developed an online portal that will allow international arriving passengers to fill a mandatory self-declaration form and eligible passengers to apply for exemption from compulsory institutional quarantine for coronavirus, said its operator DIAL on Friday.Two men were arrested on Thursday by customs (preventive) officials at the Delhi international airport for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold valuing around Rs 26 lakh.Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has directed that all medical assistance be provided to ruling party MLA from Sriperumbudur K Palani, who is undergoing treatment at a city hospital for Covid-19.Santhanam became popular by performing comic roles in various films in Tamil and grew as a top comedian in the industryThe Madras Motor Sports Club (MMSC) will reopen the MMRT circuit at Sriperumbudur for training session of car and bike racers albeit with a slew of measures conforming to government guidelines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.An open canal from Poondi reservoir in Tiruvallur district to Chembarabakkam, swollen with Krishna water, has turned into the city’s favourite getaway for cooling off.Airlines, ground handling companies and retail companies have started to either cut staff or put many of their employees on leave without pay at Chennai airport as the number of flights a day is still low because of concerns over the spread of Covid-19.The Centre has agreed to construct an overbridge on the Chennai-Bengaluru national highway, said Sriperumbudur MP T R Baalu on Tuesday.Lending more wings to the proposed Jewar International Airport in Greater Noida, the state government has formally roped in international consultancy firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), to study the possibility of raising the number of runways from two to six in the proposed Greenfield project.According to officials from the Airports Authority of India, Indigo flight 6E 7105 was scheduled to land at the airport at 8.20 am.Kolkata airport's decision to extend the ban on flights from Chennai till the end of the month is set to affect the passenger numbers in Chennai airport, which has now lost another major city from its network.PM Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary. However, since then, discussions have been going on between the Centre and the State to identify the land for the project. The shift to Chennai could take over three years.Films based on real-life incidents like No One Killed Jessica, Talvar, Neerja, and Airlift have always intrigued directors and moviegoers alike. Sriperumbudur … Delhi airport develops online portal for international passengers
PM Modi pays tributes to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary The land requirement for the second airport will be around 2,000-2,500 acres, said AAI officials. The second airport then was proposed in the auto cluster of Sriperumbudur, about 40 km west of Chennai, spanning 4,800 acres. The second airport then was proposed in the auto cluster of Sriperumbudur, about 40 km west of Chennai, spanning 4,800 acres. Overnight showers leave Chennai with 18% surplus rain for SW monsoon The Gaya airport runway is 2286 meters long, while the Kozhikode runway is 2,860 meters long and much longer than the Gaya airport runway and yet the tragedy occurred.Mangaluru International Airport has put a premium on safety ever since IX812 crashed on May 22, 2010. Dictated largely by the Gokhale Court of Inquiry (CoI) report that Air Marshal (Retd) Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale, fighter pilot and former vice-chief of IAF who headed the CoI in to the air crash gave, Airports Authority of India that owns MIA has invested in upgrading safety aspects that can help avert any such incidents in future.Four years ago, Air India Express mentioned Kozhikode international airport in a list of India's "most beautiful airports and runways".
Please Subscribe to get access to one of our early bird packs. MAP – Sriperumbudur, formerly Bhoodhapuri, is a town in the Kanchipuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and located around 40 kilometers southwest of Chennai Source: Google Maps