Kochi Airport unveils Rs 130 crore Operation Pravaah to mitigate potential floods

By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) has rolled out ‘Operation Pravaah’, a multifaceted infrastructure programme to combine flood mitigation initiatives initiated by the airport with the Ernakulam district administration and numerous native self-governments on one platform. S Suhas, managing director, CIAL, introduced the programme whereas attending a assessment assembly held at Kochi Airport on Saturday. He visited the development web site and reviewed the progress of labor together with CIAL engineers. With Kochi having one of many busiest airports within the nation that handles round 10 million flyers a 12 months, the final two flood seasons in Kerala had badly hit the prospects of each the airport operator and the passenger neighborhood.

CIAL is spending round Rs 130 crore for complete flood mitigation actions. The renovation work of the diversion canal, constructed for altering the course of the floodwater exterior the southern facet of the peripheral wall of the operational space had been divided into 5 reaches.

As the Covid outbreak has been dampening the progress of the completion of the initiatives, a particular assessment assembly was convened as per the instruction of the Chief Minister. The determination to combine the flood mitigation actions of CIAL with the continued initiatives initiated by the district administration and native self-governments was taken within the assembly chaired by Suhas.