Dholera Project: airport work to take off in Q3 of FY’16

• AHMEDABAD: The work on a lot of hoped-for international airport at Dholera, a serious transport link for the industries springing up within the 920 sq kilometer Dholera special investment region (SIR), is probably going to start within the third quarter of 2015-16.
• The airport Authority of Republic of India (AAI) has approached Union ministry for surroundings and forests (MoEF) for final environmental clearance. the general public hearing for the planned airfield, some twenty kms from the port city of Dholera within the Gulf of Cambay, was completed in April with no major objections raised by the native villagers.
• The airport was the dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi once he was the chief minister of Gujarat. it's being touted because the second international airfield in Gujarat, regarding 100-km from state's monetary hub Ahmedabad.
• The regime has shaped Dholera International airport Company Ltd (DIACL) as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for development of the airport in Dholera Project. "The airfield are developed aboard the activation space of the SIR unfold in 22-km radius. The event of the SIR and therefore the airfield complement one another," same Amit Chavda, director, (DIACL).
• "We have completed all formalities from our aspect and wanted surroundings clearance from the centre. Since we tend tore|there have been} no major objection to the Dholera project we hope to induce clearance before long," he added.
• The airfield can return abreast of one,426 hectares of land close to village Navagam in Dholera block. DIACL has additionally applied for in-principle approval from the ministry of civil aviation for the airfield project supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency.
• The airport additionally assumes significance because it can return up in Dholera SIR Project (DSIR) that is node in Gujarat for the planned Dedicated Freight passageway (DFC) between Old Delhi and Mumbai covering a complete length of 1,483-km and spending through six states.
• DSIR is being developed by Old Delhi Mumbai Industrial passageway Development Corporation restricted (DMICDC).
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