Less than eight months after the Indian Air Force claimed that safety and other concerns regarding the Chandigarh international airport had virtually been given the go-by, the state of Punjab today received another rap from the Punjab and Haryana High Court after the issue surfaced before it once again.
The Bench was told that a stadium had been constructed over a natural drain in the vicinity and the deadline for allocating work for providing additional drainage facility was almost over with little progress. The Bench was also told that encroachments on the approach road made it tough for fire engines to ply and to provide other emergency facilities in case of an untoward incident. The existence of an unauthorised structure along the airport wall and the lack of coordination between different wings of the government were also brought to the notice of the Bench.
