Bhogapuram airport set to take wing.

The stage is set for the commencement of work on the proposed international airport at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district.

The airport, according to senior officials, has received the Union Civil Aviation Ministry’s site clearance at a meeting held in New Delhi recently. The airport, which is being fiercely opposed by the locals, has already received necessary clearances from the Defence Ministry.

“The project received in principle nod from the Union government. We will receive a written order in a week,” a senior official, who made a PowerPoint presentation on the benefits of the project to the Ministry, said. The government had initially proposed the Bhogapuram aerotropolis comprising the international airport, maintenance, repair and overhaul facility and aviation academy in a sprawling 15,000 acre site.

THE HINDU