The man who built New Delhi’s T3 terminal is ready to bow out
When PS Nair took over as the director of Delhi Airport in 2002, he didn’t think his duties would involve the demolition of farm houses.
The issue was the following. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) owned a lot of prime land and in the time-honoured Delhi tradition of land grabbing, a group of people had encroached upon a 21 acre plot in Vasant Kunj and built farm houses there. Strangely, nobody in AAI had acted to retake possession. When Nair landed up at the plot one morning, with bulldozers and officials in tow, he understood why.
