Government t to give city airport, 5 others on 30-year lease
THE government will give six major airports including Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore on long-term lease of 30 years for which financial and legal consultants would be appointed soon, a top government official said here.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (PTI) ? The government will soon give some airports on "long term deals" to multinational companies to make them user- friendly with multi-model linkages to enhance international trade and tourism, minister of state for civil aviation Chaman Lal Gupta said here today."This was necessary to make the airports at par with world class," Gupta said addressing a conference on the aeronautics industry organised as part of 'France-India 2000' exhibition.
Maintaining that there was "great scope" for expansion of the aviation industry in the country, he said liberalisation policy has helped in creating favourable atmosphere for it.
"We have already started opening up airports for private parties like the one in Kochi and joint venture is on cards for the BANGALORE airport."
The Government's stand to keep an "open sky policy" for cargo operations, he said, has paid dividends as there has been a substantial increase in cargo by air.
The minister said sustained indo-French cooperation in the aviation industry would help improve airflight in the next century, adding that the government would soon come out with a policy statement on aviation.
Among civil aviation experts from France, who stressed on joint ventures especially in aircraft production and traffic management was Alain Brodin of Avions de transport regional (ATR) who said ?there will be tremendous growth of the aviation industry if India could tap just 1 per cent of its daily 11 million railway passengers to the airflight.? |
