
Land acquisition over for Madurai airport expansion
The Hindu
Centre should give up its privatization plan, say MPs
Madurai Over a decade-old process of land acquisition for Madurai Airport expansion has been completed now and 534 acres of the proposed 621 acres of land handed over to the Airports Authority of India. After attending Airport Advisory Committee meeting held here on Monday, MPs B. Manickam Tagore (Virudhunagar) and Su. Venkatesan (Madurai) told reporters that alienation of the remaining portion of the government land was under way.More Related News

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