Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said the Mopa international airport inauguration has been delayed until September.
“Mopa Airport inauguration is postponed to September; Earlier, it was decided to be open on August 15,” said CM Sawant.
Speaking in the state Assembly during the monsoon session, Sawant had said, “Almost 90 per cent of work on the project has been completed, and trials at the airport are on.”
Sawant said the airport at Mopa in the North Goa district would be commissioned “between August 15 and September 1 this year.
The terminal building will be developed in four phases; in the first phase, it will have the capacity to handle 4.4 million passengers per annum (MPPA), followed 5.6 MPPA, 9.4 MPPA and 13.1 MPPA in the second, third and fourth phases, respectively.
The new airport will have the ultimate potential of handling more than 30 million passengers per annum.
