Topic summary
Kolkata Airport
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
Modernisation (2008–present)
The modernisation plan for the Kolkata Airport received the final nod on 14 August 2008. The project, worth ₹1,942.51 crore (US$446.5 million), included the construction of a new terminal building with a passengers handling capacity of 20 million passengers per annum (mppa), expansion of secondary runway, upgradation of the navigation facilities, addition of taxiways and parking bays and . The then existing domestic and international terminals had a capacity of 4.06 mppa and 0.88 mppa, respectively, and were already saturated having handled 6.45 million and 1.01 million passengers in 2007–08. During 2003–08, the airport saw a 21.4% growth in domestic traffic and 6.4% growth in international traffic with further traffic growth of 19% per annum expected till 2011–12. A series of approvals were granted between April 2007 and May 2008 from multiple authorities for the project.