The Airport Authority of India has shortlisted five bidders for the modernisation of the Amritsar and Udaipur airport.
These include Reliance Energy (REL), Tata Changi consortium and the Rahejas, according to sources. As many as 24 infrastructure firms, GMR, GVK, Essar and Reliance Energy had bid for development and modernisation of the airports at Udaipur while 23 bids were submitted for the Amritsar airport.
The development and modernisation plans are only for the city-side of these non-metro airports and are expected to be completed by 2010, through public-private partnership (PPP). AAI will take care of the airside development of the airports.
The government wants the consortium of the selected bidder and the AAI to commercially operate the airports and maintain their terminal buildings. It would also be responsible to develop and operate cargo facilities at these airports, besides undertaking the city-side development.
The airport modernisation process is part of the
upgrade process of 35 non-metro airports in the country by 2010.