SIKKIM: Pakyong airport completion prolonged by another 12 months
GANGTOK, July 28: The Union Minister of State for Ministry of Civil Aviation Praful Patel today said the completion date of the Pakyong Greenfield airport has been prolonged to another 12 months.
“The construction of runway and apron works has been awarded for an amount of Rs. 264.29 crores with a target of completion of this work within 24 months. However the entire project is likely to be completed within 36 months”, said Mr. Patel in his reply to a question from Sikkim MP OT Lepcha in the Rajya Sabha today.
This revision of the completion deadline of the Pakyong airport is contrary to Mr. Patel’s earlier enthusiasm on February when he had asserted that the airport will be completed by June, 2011.
While giving no reasons for the extension of the deadline, Mr. Patel said that manpower and machinery have been mobilized for the Pakyong airport project and earth excavation/filling is in progress.
At the same time, the Minister of State tried to put the ball in the court of the Sikkim Government.
“The work is likely to pickup once the removal of the present encumbrances like shifting of rural water pipelines crossing the airport project site, felling and removal of trees, shifting of electricity transmission lines, diversion of Dikling road, relocation of Chortens/Devisthans from the project land, removal of unauthorized construction around the airport boundary and construction of CC footpath upto Dikling school is completed by the State government”, said Mr. Patel.
Mr. Lepcha today also placed questions in the Rajya Sabha to the Ministries of Finance and Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.
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