Nepal starts construction of second major airport
For more than 40 years, the airport is planned to be in Nepal in a second. Now, the construction actually begins and also a date for scheduled completion.
The Nepalese government bought in the year 1975, the country reached a new airport for the city of Pokhara. More than 40 years later, the construction of the Pokhara, has started a Regional International Airport. The Minister for culture, tourism and aviation, Jitendra Narayan Dev, opened the Work, as the newspaper the Kathmandu Post reported.
The building is approximately three kilometres to the East of the current airport of Pokhara and to 10. July 2021 to be completed. In charge of the Chinese company China CAMC Engineering. It should not meet the deadline, it must pay according to the newspaper, a penalty. Even if the cost be higher than planned, and must bear the company, therefore, the more cost. The funding of aircraft construction of the port allows the Export-Import Bank of China with a loan of around 216 million dollars.
2500 metres for A320, and co.
Pokhara is the second largest city of Nepal, is located about 200 kilometers West of the capital Kathmandu, and is access to the Annapurna Region. Now it is the site of the second major airport in the country. The Airport now has a 2500-Meter-long and 45-Meter wide runway, aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 can take off and land. On 10,000 square meters, international Terminal is under construction on 4000 square meters of the domestic terminal, and on 3500 square meters of a building for customs and freight.
The Kathmandu Post reports, however, also raised concerns: "Although the completion of the project is expected to accelerate the pace of development in Pokhara and its surrounding areas, it brings also problems of agglomeration, such as congestion and uncontrolled immigration, in a relatively clean and not overcrowded city," the newspaper said. A reader commented: "Bye Bye, peaceful Pokhara."