Via PTI
KOLKATA: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday stated that the Centre has elaborate infrastructure construction plans for West Bengal together with a 2d airport for Kolkata, however the Mamata Banerjee executive has now not but equipped land for it.
Scindia claimed that he has been requesting a discussion with the manager minister for 6 months for the aim of putting in a 2d airport for the reason that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose World (NSCBI) Airport has reached its capability, however there was no reaction from the opposite facet up to now.
“We wish a brand new airport to be in-built Kolkata, the prevailing one is at this time operating at most capability and for a number of years, letters and perspectives are being exchanged for a brand new web page, however no concrete step has come from the state executive,” he informed journalists at a press convention right here.
Keeping up that his ministry has elaborate plans for the improvement of civil aviation in West Bengal, Scindia requested how paintings for the proposed new airport would start “till land is made to be had” to the Airports Authority of India.
“We’re making an investment Rs 700 crore for the existing (NSCBI) airport. A brand new technical block cum regulate tower shall be made operational at a price of Rs 300 crore,” he stated, including {that a} new taxiway is being constructed for Rs 265 crore.
The minister stated that Rs 110 crore is being invested for connecting the Metro Railway with the airport terminal construction.
A two-lakh sq. metre new airport wishes to return as much as cater to the emerging selection of passengers to and from this jap city, he stated.
Scindia stated that whilst the existing airport has a throughput of two.5 crore other folks, the brand new airport’s terminal construction must have a throughput of three.5 crore.
“At this time, the airport has 8,600 passenger capability consistent with day, we wish {that a} new terminal construction is constructed with capability for 10,000 to 11,000 passengers consistent with day,” he stated, keeping up that those plans can simplest be fructified if the state executive cooperates and works in combination.
The West Bengal executive has determined to build a 2d airport within the neighborhood of Kolkata, with an purpose to decongest the NSCBI Airport, and Bhangar in neighbouring South 24 Parganas district is likely one of the imaginable places, an reliable had stated remaining month.
The placement is the same for Bagdogra airport close to Siliguri in north Bengal the place the state executive was once dilly-dallying on delivering land for its augmentation, Scindia claimed.
“The central executive has written to the state a number of occasions for early delivering of land, however there is not any answer…The (state) executive is caught in recordsdata,” he stated.
He advised the manager minister to paintings in tandem with the Centre for construction of the state.
“For the remaining six months I’ve been seeking to hang dialogue with the manager minister in order that we will transfer ahead on those vital problems,” he stated.
Claiming that there’s loss of will within the Mamata Banerjee executive, he stated how the Centre by myself can perform those tasks if the state does now not come ahead.
Saying that Banerjee’s declare that the average guy were given 0 within the Union Price range for 2022-2023 was once some distance from the reality, Scindia stated that the central executive will infuse Rs 1.5 lakh crore in West Bengal by myself within the subsequent 3 years for infrastructure construction.
Scindia claimed that the Trinamool Congress-ruled state’s charge of inflation was once 8.7 consistent with cent in 2020-21, whilst the nationwide moderate was once 6.2 consistent with cent for a similar length.
