Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited Develops an Airport Terminal at Andal

Posted by Rahul Bose
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Feb 26, 2016
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An Aerotropolis city is one which has its social and financial infrastructures depending on a nearby Airbase. BAPL has introduced one such Airport terminal at Andal, situated near Durgapur. It has actually been established by Singapore's Changi Airports International, which owns its share in overall business venture.

BAPL was developed in the year 2006. The preliminary strategy was to draw out a new flight terminal making use of the old available resources. There existed an old landing field that was utilized by the United States Armed Air Forces throughout the 2nd World War. BAPL intended to use it as a base for their project and they indeed created it into a revived one, relabeling it as Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport. The Flight terminal occupies a location of 5750 square meter and is able to handle Boeing 737 as well as slim body planes like Jet A320. 

However, not only did they create this airport in to its physical form, they also formed a Skycity and named it as - 'Sujalaam'. It is spread over an area of concerning 1616 square kilometers. In 2007 the West Bengal State government re-planned the whole project and initiated strategies to redevelop the airport on 650acres of land. The re-structured plan also included putting up an industrial park, an InfoTech park, a logistics hub, and also a supporting territory, all within a radius distance of 15 kilometers from the industrial town of Durgapur which has a location of over another 1650 acres, with a total financial investment of Rs. 12,000 core. 

After one of the most industrialized Aerotropolis city-states of Hong Kong, Singapore as well as Dubai, the proposed Durgapur Aerotropolis project is anticipated to draw out comparable socio-economic development in Durgapur, which can make Durgapur another cosmopolitan city, right after Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal.

BAPL, and Mr. Partha Ghosh is additionally developing Sujalaam skycity. The city is going to allow people balancing a way of living that will certainly superimpose the way of living that they have currently. The skycity is going to be an economic hub promoting tourism, improving academic resources, offering new opportunities in the field of services, IT, telecoms, retail markets, hospitality, agro-processing, as well as bio-technology. Aside from these it is likewise going to have a domestic municipality.

'Sujalaam' lies in the Asansol-Durgapur area of the state of West Bengal. The total project has actually been crafted to turn up excellence to its optimum level. In accordance with Partha Ghosh of BAPL, the firm has many similar jobs in the pipeline.

Author's bio: Mr. Partha Ghosh of BAPL has given his best of best into this Aerotropolis project. After having his standalone attentions to the factors for the growth of Airport, the Durgapur Flight terminal has seen improvement by Mr. Partha Ghosh and his attempts becoming successful in making Sujalaam skycity.
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