Indian Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel has said the process to modernise 35 non-metro airports in the countrywill be completed by March 2010.
New Terminal Buildings expandable on modular basis are being constructed at Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Agatti, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Goa, Jaipur, Lucknow, Indore, Khajuraho, Madurai, Mangalore, Port Blair, Ranchi, Raipur, Rajkot, Trivandrum, Trichy, Udaipur, Varanasi and Vishakhapatnamairports.
Modification and expansion of existing terminal buildings is being undertaken at airports in Agra, Agartala, Coimbatore, Dimapur, Guwahati, Imphal, Jammu, Nagpur,Patna, Pune and Vadodara.
Airside works include, expansion and strengthening of runway for wide bodied aircraft, extension/new construction of aprons for more parking, link taxiways andparallel taxiways.