Adani Group gets three months to take over airports
The Adani Group has been allowed a three-month extension to take over airports at Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram, civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
The Ahmedabad-based conglomerate had asked state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) for a six-month extension till December 2021, citing force majeure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scindia said that while the airports at Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram are yet to be handed over to the Adani Group, those at Mangaluru, Ahmedabad, and Lucknow were handed over to the company on October 31, November 2 and November 7, respectively. The concessionaire had invoked force majeure and sought an extension of 205 days for taking over these airports.
