"Today, the Government of India gave Environmental clearance for the construction of Kannur International Airport," Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told reporters in New Delhi.
Chandy, who held talks with Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, said a global tender for construction of the runway would be invited soon.
"Now we can straight away go for the tender for construction of runway," the Chief Minister said.
The project involves construction of International Airport at Keezhallur and Pazhassi Panchayat in Thalassery in a total land area of 525.50 hectares with a proposed built-up area of 50,000 sq metre.
The proposal for the development of the Airport had received ‘in principle’ clearance from the Ministry of Civil Aviation in February 2008.
The techno economic feasibility project envisages to be approximately Rs 1000 crore (Rs 10 billion)
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