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Karnataka cabinet backs new airport project
Monday, 13 December 2004, 20:30 IST
BANGALORE: A 
13 billion ($290 million) international airport is slated to come up at Devanahalli, 40 km from the Karnataka capital.
The Karnataka government after a four-hour cabinet meeting Saturday night approved in principle construction of the Bangalore International Airport, a greenfield project, which has already been cleared by the central government.
Karnataka Information Minister M.P. Prakash told reporters here the cabinet had resolved to support the airport.
"The Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) consortium will be meeting here Dec 14 to amend certain anomalies in the agreement reached with the previous Congress government.
"While extending our government's support to the airport project, we have directed BIAL to make certain changes in the legal clauses for final approval at the next cabinet meeting," Prakash said.
The cabinet also approved 11 road projects at an estimated cost of 880 million in and around the electronics city on the outskirts of Bangalore, where a majority of high-tech companies like Infosys and Wipro are situated.
"The cabinet has also cleared the 3.9-billion ($87 million) IT corridor project to be built between the present airport and the electronics city," Prakash disclosed.
In fact, Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh had announced the project during the Bangalore IT.Com 2004 event last month, in a bid to assuage the feelings of the IT sector, which was peeved over the crumbling infrastructure in the state capital.
Source: IANS
13 billion ($290 million) international airport is slated to come up at Devanahalli, 40 km from the Karnataka capital.
The Karnataka government after a four-hour cabinet meeting Saturday night approved in principle construction of the Bangalore International Airport, a greenfield project, which has already been cleared by the central government.
Karnataka Information Minister M.P. Prakash told reporters here the cabinet had resolved to support the airport.
"The Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) consortium will be meeting here Dec 14 to amend certain anomalies in the agreement reached with the previous Congress government.
"While extending our government's support to the airport project, we have directed BIAL to make certain changes in the legal clauses for final approval at the next cabinet meeting," Prakash said.
The cabinet also approved 11 road projects at an estimated cost of 880 million in and around the electronics city on the outskirts of Bangalore, where a majority of high-tech companies like Infosys and Wipro are situated.
"The cabinet has also cleared the 3.9-billion ($87 million) IT corridor project to be built between the present airport and the electronics city," Prakash disclosed.
In fact, Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh had announced the project during the Bangalore IT.Com 2004 event last month, in a bid to assuage the feelings of the IT sector, which was peeved over the crumbling infrastructure in the state capital.
Source: IANS