Kalaburagi: Eyebrows were raised when the Principal Secretary for the Department of Infrastructure Development stated on August 12 that the pending works of the Kalaburagi airport would be completed in forty days by the Public Works Department.
Predictably enough, two months after the assurance given at a high level meeting, no work has commenced and completion looks like a distant dream.
According to well placed sources, the PWD which has now been entrusted with the responsibility of completing the remaining work, has neither initiated measures to start the work or floated tenders for awarding it to some agency.
The compound wall of the Airport has been damaged and the site of the Airport has become a grazing ground for stray cattle and sheep.
There are no security guards even to guard whatever infrastructure has been developed. This has resulted in vandalism of the property.
The State government decided to entrust the task of completing the much-delayed Kalaburagi airport project to the PWD after the Airports Authority of India (AAI) refused to take up the incomplete project work.
Meanwhile expressing its concern over the “inordinate delay” in completing the airport, the Hyderabad Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HKCCI) has sought the intervention of the Chief Secretary of Karnataka for the speedy completion
of the work.
