The Union government has picked two of the four locations proposed by the Tamil Nadu government for a second airport in Chennai, and is waiting for a response from the State administration.
Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia said: “From the four sites, we have selected two and have reverted to State government, waiting for [an] answer on the final site so that the work can be initiated to make sure that the second airport in Chennai comes to life as soon as possible,” the minister said.
The Tamil Nadu government had shortlisted Parandur, Pannur, Tiruporur, and Padalam as four sites for the second https://newprojectstracker.com/blog/?p=7832&preview=true. It was in 2007, when the DMK regime was in power, that the then Union government approved a 4,000-acre site for Chennai’s second airport in Sriperumbudur. 15 years have passed and the second airport is still on paper.
