In a move that will boost the civil aviation sector in Karnataka, the Centre granted 'in-principle ' clearance to the four greenfield airport proposals of Shimoga, Hassan, Bijapur and Gulbarga.
Headed by ministry secretary Ashok Chawla, the committee gave the approvals subject to the conditions that Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to be formalised among the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Ministry of Defence regarding air space management for the airports at Gulbarga and Bijapur in view of the existing defence operations at Pune and Bidar.
The 2500-acre Hassan airport is being implemented by entrepreneur Rajeev Chandra Shekhar's Jupiter Aviation and Logistics on design, build, operate, transfer basis and will be ready by 2009.
The Shimoga and Gulbarga airports will be set up by a single consortium of the Hyderabad- based major Maytes Infra and NCC Infra. The developer of the Bijapur airport has not yet been firmed up yet.
The meeting also discussed the format for applications for greenfield airports.
Pursuant to this, the steering committee was constituted to monitor the setting up of airports.
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