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Goa to float global tenders for its new airport soon

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 2:10 AM IST

"We would like to float global tenders for the Mopa airport by March," Parikkar told reporters on the sidelines of panIIT conference here.

Parikkar, an IIT graduate, said that the existing airport at Dabolim was totally saturated.

The new airport would be built on public-private partnership basis with land to be given by the government.

He said that the cost of the airport would be around Rs 3000 crore, adding that the government had earmarked 2500 acre for it.

The airport was likely to become operational in four year's time, he said.

Air traffic to Goa was expected to double from three million to six million in three years, Parikkar said.

  

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First Published: Dec 08 2012 | 5:45 PM IST

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