Overview

• The CCEA approved a greenfield airport for Kota-Bundi in Rajasthan and a six-lane, access-controlled Capital Region Ring Road in Odisha spanning 110.875 km.
• The Kota project will be built by the Airports Authority of India using internal accruals, with 440.06 hectares already transferred by the Rajasthan government.
• The new airport includes a 20,000 sq m terminal for 1,000 peak-hour passengers and 2 million annually, a 3,200 m x 45 m runway, seven A321 parking bays, two link taxiways, an ATC/technical block, and a fire station.
• Kota’s existing AAI-owned airfield has a 1,220 m x 38 m runway and a 400 sq m terminal for about 50 peak-hour passengers, and it cannot be expanded due to land constraints and urbanisation.
• The Odisha ring road will be executed under the Hybrid Annuity Mode, integrate with NH-55, NH-57, NH-655 and SH-65, link key economic and logistics nodes, and is expected to generate nearly 1.7 crore person-days of work.