11-22-2005, 03:07 PM
<b>India to spend $10 bn on airport upgrades</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India is embarking on a massive drive to upgrade existing airports and build new ones at a cost of 10 billion dollars over the next four years, its Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has said.
<b>The projects involve both upgrading and building airports in 41 cities, including six key cities</b>, he told reporters at the Dubai Air Show on Monday.
While airports <b>in the metro cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata </b>would be upgraded to receive the largest and latest aircraft, t<b>wo new airports would be built at Bangalore and Hyderabad</b>.
The minister said these projects would be completed in five years.
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Again everything is in air.
<b>The projects involve both upgrading and building airports in 41 cities, including six key cities</b>, he told reporters at the Dubai Air Show on Monday.
While airports <b>in the metro cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata </b>would be upgraded to receive the largest and latest aircraft, t<b>wo new airports would be built at Bangalore and Hyderabad</b>.
The minister said these projects would be completed in five years.
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Again everything is in air.