'BIAL deviated from designs'

'BIAL deviated from designs'
DH News Service, Bangalore:
Minister for IT and BT, Katta Subramanya Naidu has charged Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) with deviating from the original blue print while executing the work on air terminus.


“We wanted an airport of international standard while the constructed one is of substandard,” he alleged while speaking to reporters here on Wednesday.

Disclosing that the State government would “negotiate” with BIAL on setting right the lapses in the construction and modifying the MoU to provide for retaining HAL airport, the minister said central intervention would be sought if the BIAL refused to concede to the demands.

“The government is firm on its stand on rectifying the lapses in construction. We would terminate the agreement with BIAL and entrust the work on expanding the airport to a different company if the latter fails to set-right the lapses,” the minister affirmed.

Opining that air traffic at BIA would reach the maximum in a period of less than an year, the minister felt HAL airport needs to be revived to cater to domestic traffic.

Road access and parking space can be created at HAL airport by shifting the Institute of Aviation Medicine to some other location. “A functioning airport has been closed no where in the world to pave for the new one,” he substantiated.

House Committee

He said CM B S Yeddyurappa and Assembly Speaker Jagadish Shettar will shortly set up a joint House committee to probe alleged lapses in the airport construction, as assured in the Assembly recently.