BAPL Launches an Aero City in Durgapur

After the most developed Aerotropolis city-states of Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai, the proposed Durgapur Aerotropolis project is expected to bring out similar socio-economic growth in Durgapur, which can make Durgapur another metropolitan city, right after Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal.

The total project is headed by a private company named Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited (BAPL). The company is working in accordance with Changi Airports International, which is one of the largest airport management companies in the world. They have 26% equity stake in BAPL. The aviation sector is intended to oversee all the major aspects of the airport construction work.

An Aerotropolis can be defined as a term for a city which has an airport as its base for the layout, infrastructure, and economic growth of that place. Hence it can also be called as an airport city. BAPL states that, the project will have an airport, corporate spaces, schools, shopping areas, housing, industrial park, and an IT hub, all located within an area of 2300 acres.

Other than this, BAPL is also engaged in developing similar projects in some other places in India. The proposed next project I the queue is Ludhiana Aerotropolis. BAPL is all set to mark a difference between a traditional city airport to the newly conceptualized airport city.

BAPL, is also developing a sky city titled as ‘Sujalaam’. The city is going to allow people balancing a lifestyle that will superimpose the lifestyle that they have now. The skycity is going to be an economic hub promoting tourism, boosting educational resources, providing new opportunities in the field of services, IT, telecommunications, retail markets, hospitality, agro-processing, and bio-technology. Other than these it is also going to have a residential township. 

In recent times, airports have become multifunctional and multi model role enterprises that can generate commercial developments within their boundaries.  ‘Sujalaam’ is located in the Asansol-Durgapur region of the state of West Bengal. Spread over an area of 1616 square kilometers, the project is bound by two rivers on its north and south. The total project has been engineered to show up excellence to its optimity. “The company has many similar projects in the pipeline” - says Partha Ghosh BAPL

Author’s bio: The founder Chairman cum Managing Director of Bengal Aerotropolis is Mr. Partha Ghosh who has nurtured his thought process throughout the project schedules to bring up the project to life and so it will not be any exaggeration, if we call the project as Partha Ghosh BAPL.