Guwahati airport shall be leased out to private partners under the Pubic-Private-Partnership (PPP) model. The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the leasing out of six airports — Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru — for operation, management and development under the Public Private Partnership (PPP).
The cabinet provided "in-principle" approval for leasing out the airports under the PPP model, said an official statement.
Currently, the airports being managed under the PPP model include Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Cochin.
"While these PPP experiments have helped create world class airports, it has also helped AAI (Airports Authority of India) in enhancing its revenues and focusing on developing airports and air navigation infrastructure in the rest of the country," it said.
As per the Civil Aviation Ministry statement, PPP in infrastructure projects brings efficiency in service delivery, expertise, enterprise and professionalism apart from harnessing the needed investments in the public sector.
The decision to lease the airports under the PPP model is expected to enhance the revenue to AAI and increase the economic development in the concerned areas in terms of job creation and related infrastructure, as per the statement.
Giants like GMR handle New Delhi and Hyderabad airport making it one of the best managed while Kochin with its extensive solar power use, have emerged as the greenest airport of the world.
Meanwhile ever congested terminal of the Guwahati airport is getting a new terminal by 2021 which will have all the world class facilities, especially a multi-level car parking area.
This new integrated terminal building at Guwahati will also comply with green building norms having GRIHA-4 Ratings.
Entire building will have LED lighting system controlled through BMS. The peak hour traffic carrying capacity of the new terminal building will be around 2900 passengers having 77,500 sq.m (approx.) areas for movement.
