The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will be installing anti-bird spikes at various buildings and boundaries of Swami Vivekananda Airport to prevent birds from roosting in the airport premises as part of air safety norms, official sources informed.
The spikes prevent the birds from landing on boundary walls and other locations of bulildings while also ensuring the species are not harmed.
Birds in the airport regions are a hazard for aircraft landing and taking off.
AAI has also drawn up ambitious plans for creating infrastructure for an international level business and leisure destination on the city side of Swami Vivekananda Airport .
The project aims to provide a world-class environment, in which people can work, play and stay while catering to the surge in traffic of corporate travellers and tourists, officials informed.
The entire land 80 acres of land earmarked for developing various types of infrastructure may be provided to multiple entities / developers for modular development on 30 year lease or to a single entity under PPP concessional framework for development of the city-side for 30 year lease, they informed.
The AAI believes that development of the city side of the airport would make the region an ‘economic hub’ with exceptional connectivity, officials informed.
The city side development of the airport also envisages setting up of hotels and convention centers with an ‘Airport Commercial District’ which would also include ‘Airport Business District’, and a host of world-class passenger convenience amenities among others.