Chennai airport phase II modernisation project delayed once again
The Hindu
Phase I to be completed by the end of the year
The city airport’s phase II modernisation project has been hit by a delay once again because of the pandemic and the lockdown, and a part of the new integrated terminal is likely be opened by the end of the year. The construction on the new integrated terminal, sprawling over 1,97,000 square metre, was started three years ago with an estimated budget of ₹2,500 crore, and was to be constructed in two phases. The entire work was to be finished by the end of this year. But early last year, as the lockdown came into place, construction was affected, and subsequently resumed when relaxations were gradually announced. In December, it was estimated that phase I, a part of the new integrated terminal, will be completed in six months. Officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said with the second lockdown in place, work had once again slowed down and expected the terminal to be completed only by coming December. “The main issue was getting workers. This lockdown too we are progressing with the construction utilising a small workforce, and the workers decided to head home. Only after there are considerable relaxations, will we be able to get back the full workforce and finish the remaining work,” an official said.
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.
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