A team of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has given its thumbs up to the new runway at the IGI Airport here and recommended that the lessons learnt from completion of the project should be shared with other countries.
The Air Navigation Commission (ANC), that comes under ICAO, an UN body, which recently concluded its two-week visit to India, had a first- hand glimpse of the construction activities going on here to build the modern airport.
The GMR-led Delhi International Airport (DIAL) briefed the team led by ANC President Omari R Nundu about the execution of various activities, including the Code 'F' runway called 11-29, which was commissioned well ahead of schedule.
"The ANC felt that lessons learnt in execution of such a complex project could be shared with other contracting states" of the ICAO, a note from the Commission said.
The team witnessed implementation of the master plan for the new airport, the phase I of which would be completed before the 2010 Commonwealth Games to meet an estimated 60 million passengers capacity in 2012.
The team had a meeting with Civil Aviation Secretary Ashok Chawla who gave an overview of the strong traffic growth being witnessed in the country in the past few years and the various policy measures as well as steps to overcome the infrastructure constraints taken by the government.
ANC President Omari Nundu described the Commission's visit as "an eye-opener" which made his team aware of the ongoing developments in the civil aviation sector in India.
"There are several lessons to be learnt from what is happening in India, for example the public-private partnership model for modernisation of airports including greenfield airports," Nundu said.
