Important news!! Approval received from Centre to set up a second airport in Parandur now!!
Getting in-principle approval from the Centre for setting up of a second airport at Parandur in Chennai has become the talk of the town now!!
In this scenario, the TN would go ahead and would float bids for this important project.
The steering committee recommended the project and had sent it to the Ministry for Civil Aviation for final approval. This was informed to the TN government on 28th of March.
Need for 2 stage approval:
It is worth mentioning here that the Parandur project needed 2 stage approval from the Ministry for Civil Aviation, that is site clearance and in-principle approval.
In August 2024, site clearance came through is known. Later in the September month, TIDCO or Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation has sent an application for the grant of in-principle approval.
On Tuesday, 8th of April 2025, the announcement regarding the grant of approval came out. The application was examined for 7 long months before the grant of approval came out.
What is going to happen now?
At a mammoth cost of Rs 27400 crores, the second airport at Parandur would be constructed and there would be 3 mid-field airport terminal buildings. This Parandur airport would be about 42kms from the existing Meenambakkam airport. The airport would be constructed in phases and phase 1 project cost would be Rs 11445 cr.
By January 2026, TIDCO would start the construction works of the Parandur airport and would complete the works in another 2 years. The second airport would be constructed on a vast piece of land of 2172.72 hectares and there would be 2 parallel runways at this airport.
According to some sources, the airport has been planned for code 4F and future aircraft trend requirements. Information gathered is that the phase 1 terminal would be present over an area of 351380 sqm.
It was brought out that nearly 95 percent of the tender has been drafted and few more things would have to be finalised. Point is that the tender would be sent to the Ministry for Civil Aviation as per the procedure. Tenders would be floated after receiving the go ahead signal.
