8 companies including GVK Group, Adani Ports keen on airport modernisation plan.

Eight companies, including GMR Airports, GVK Group and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, have evinced interest in the government project to modernise the airports in Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.

In December, the government had issued a 'request for qualification' document for these airports to be awarded on public-private partnership (PPP) model, shifting from an earlier plan that envisaged award of the Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports on PPP model and the other two on management contract.

'All these eight companies are good companies. We have started the process of privatising these airports and should try to finish it as early as possible, but definitely not by the end of this fiscal,' a senior civil aviation ministry official told ET.


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