Engineering

The functional responsibility includes::

Development of airport infrastructures, re-carpeting of runway, extension of length of the runway including construction of hangars and terminal buildings at various AAI airports across the nation. The Engineering Department is headed by Member (Planning) and there are various departments under Engineering wing which includes PMQA,KlD and the key infrastructure activity of the organization. In the recent past, many new projects have been undertaken by the Engineering Department including modernization of Kolkata and Chennai Airports. The initiatives ofAAl Engineering Department were recently appreciated by none other than the Hon’ble President of india who remarked while inaugurating a new terminal building at Kolkata Airport that;

“ I am happy to know that the Ministry ofCivil Aviation and A irports Authority of India have taken up the development and modernization of existing airports in a mission mode ......

....... I wish the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Airports Authority of India all success in their endeavours to build state of the art airport infrastructure in the country. ”

-Extracts from the address by Hon'ble President of indie on the occastion of

inauguration of new integrated terminal building at Swami erkananda Airport, Raipur, Chattisgarh. 7th November, 2012