Government masterplan for airports
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The government will complete drafting a master plan for the development of airports within a fortnight, Times of India reported.With the growth of the air transport industry, the Maharashtra Airport Development Corporation (MADC) will formulate a policy to upgrade the infrastructure at airports, it said. The draft would include a perspective development plan for the next 20 years, according to Nandkumar Jantre, Vice- Chairman and Managing Director of MADC. According to the report, one of the aims of the policy would be to provide airports with the infrastructure to handle increased traffic volume. The corporation has identified 29 potential sites for the development of new or upgraded airports. Some of the sites where new airports have been planned are Navi Mumbai, Amravati, Jalgaon, Solapur, Shirdi, Rajgurunagar near Pune and Chippi-Parule in Sindhudurg district. According to the report, Jantre had told the paper that they would decide on which project to take up first. Another important focus area of the master plan will be to suggest guidelines for the improvement of customer facilities at airports, besides measures for flyers’ security.
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