Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have come out in support of Tamil Nadu’s stance that whenever the Central government privatises an airport in a state, the state government should get a share in the revenue.
In a policy note issued earlier this month, Tamil Nadu said that if the state government acquires and transfers land to the Centre-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) free of cost, and if the AAI or the Centre transfers that land to a third party, the value realised or revenue accrued thereby must be proportionately shared with the state government “reflecting the huge investment in land being made by the state government”.
