{"id":338169,"date":"2020-02-19T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338169"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:54:21","slug":"airport-expansion-plan-awaits-cabinet-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airport-expansion-plan-awaits-cabinet-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport expansion plan awaits Cabinet nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion plan of Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi over a 301 acre Government land is likely to be tabled in the Cabinet soon, airport officials said on Thursday. The largest airport in Jharkhand is likely to extend its runway, increase the length of basic strip and construct an isolation bay on the extra land that will be allotted to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) once the Cabinet gives its nod to the expansion plans, they added. <\/p>\n<p>Airport Director Vinod Sharma on Thursday said that the Birsa Munda Airport at present has a 75 meter basic strip, which is the minimum length required for any airport. The length of the basic strip, he said, will be increased to 140 meters once the expansion plan is approved. \u201cThe draft has been prepared and we are waiting for the Cabinet\u2019s approval. Things will start taking shape only after the Cabinet takes its decision,\u201d Sharma said.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion plan of Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi over a 301 acre Government land is likely to be tabled in the Cabinet soon, airport officials said on Thursday. The largest airport in Jharkhand is likely to extend its runway, increase the length of basic strip and construct an isolation bay on the extra land that will be allotted to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) once the Cabinet gives its nod to the expansion plans, they added. Airport Director Vinod Sharma on Thursday said that the Birsa Munda Airport at present has a 75 meter basic strip, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}