SOUTH INDIA
January 1st, 2004
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA'S civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy has told the Indian parliament that southern India airports will be made, while plans to upgrade the terminals at Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi are delayed. Rudy said extension and resurfacing work at Hyderabad airport would be completed next June and the development of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam airport would finish by September 2005. Improvements were also underway at Karnataka's Mangalore airport, Kerala's Calicut and Chennai (Madras) international airport.
INDIA'S civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy has told the Indian parliament that southern India airports will be made, while plans to upgrade the terminals at Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi are delayed. Rudy said extension and resurfacing work at Hyderabad airport would be completed next June and the development of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam airport would finish by September 2005. Improvements were also underway at Karnataka's Mangalore airport, Kerala's Calicut and Chennai (Madras) international airport.
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.