Pune: MP Girish Bapat will meet top officials of the Airports Authority of India and the ministry of defence in New Delhi to on Tuesday to speed up the land transfer process for setting up the new cargo hold area at the city airport.
Bapat, also the chairman of the Pune airport advisory committee, told TOI that he was expecting the documentation of the land transfer to be completed in the next 10 days. “On December 10, there was a meeting between both the agencies. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the ministry of defence (MoD) came to a common platform in connection with the transfer of a 2.5-acre plot belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF) to the AAI in lieu of a plot and a building belonging to the latter in Chandigarh. Considering that the Covid-19 vaccine could be out at any moment now, things need to move faster,” Bapat said.
“With the IAF giving the plot to the AAI, the present cargo holding and processing area can shift without delay. Simultaneously, some infrastructure can be created for better storage and transportation of vaccines,” he said.
The existing facility does not have any cold storage and is managed by the Pune customs.
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