Chennai’s second airport likely to get site clearance

The second airport for Chennai proposed at Parandur will likely receive site clearance from the Centre this month.

At ₹32,704.92 crore, the Tamil Nadu government has planned the Parandur airport in Kancheepuram district, and this facility will handle nearly 100 million passengers.

A senior government official said, “We will get the site clearance in a month. Then, we will get No Objection Certificates from various departments in the next six months. We will post details on land acquisition mentioning all the survey numbers by July-August.”

Site clearance will be the first major approval that the State government must receive to expedite the setting up of the greenfield airport.

“The Steering Committee, comprising members from the Department of Civil Aviation, Home Ministry, Defence Ministry, Department of Economic Affairs, Airports Authority of India, and Directorate General of Civil Aviation, may meet next week. If the committee gives approval for this airport, it will be presented to the Minister of Civil Aviation. We expect the final approval to come through this month,” another source said.