Paradip, Sept. 16: Authorities of the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) are giving final touches to the much-awaited airstrip of the port town. Recently, the ministry of shipping accorded ‘go-ahead’ sign for the airstrip.
“The port town is going to have the air travel facility. We are giving final shape to the project,” said chairman of the PPT Biplav Kumar.
The rise in mineral ore export has led the ore-laden trucks to avail of the Paradip-Cuttack and Paradip-Daitary expressways resulting in poor traffic management. “The national highways leading to the port town are often plagued by traffic jam. It is putting Paradip in bad light keeping in mind the surge in industrial ventures in the peripheral areas,” he said.
“The plan for an airstrip has been pending since long. The need for an airstrip was deliberated to the union shipping secretary during his recent visited to the PPT. Later the Union ministry agreed to our plan,” said the chairman.
Carving out an airstrip in the PPT was unanimously resolved in a recent meet between the officials and the board of trustees. The PPT officials are on the job to earmark about 7,000-acre patch of compact land for the project.
“The PPT is shortly going to apprise the Union civil aviation ministry of the project. The shipping ministry, on our behalf, would write to the Union civil aviation ministry in this regard. Once the site is earmarked, the PPT would report it to the state government,” Kumar said.
With the centre deciding to bracket Paradip under mega petroleum, chemicals and petro-chemical investment region (PCPIR) the importance of this town has gone up manifold. Moreover, the town awaits to be an industrial hub with two major steel projects, oil refinery and scores of ancillary industrial units queuing up to have base here.
(Sourced from Telegraph)
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