High rise building at city airport: NMC to convene joint meeting

By Vikas Vaidya

The solution regarding high rise buildings near funnel area of Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport is still not in sight. These buildings have now emerged as biggest threat to the growth of the airport and very survival as an important airport. Meanwhile Nagpur Municipal Corporation has decided to convene a joint meeting of civic authorities and airport related units like MIHAN India Limited (MIL), Airport Authority of India (AAI).
MIL that runs the airport, has even mooted a proposal to reduce the length of runway that will disallow the landing of big aircraft. When contacted Virendra Singh, Municipal Commissioner replied very positively. He told ‘The Hitavada’ that since his joining though he did not receive any letter, he was a bit aware of some developments. He further assured that he would soon convene a joint meeting of stakeholders so that some solutions could be find out.
Whenever any construction is taken within the 20 km area of any airport, it has to take No Objection Certificate (NOC) from Airport Authority of India (AAI). A new system NOCOS- Aerodrome Safeguarding Automation System has been brought. This system is for accepting on-line applications for height clearance of the build environment around the airports and also to calculate the permitted safe heights as per the prescribed rules. If any building violates the rule of height, then on the request of AAI, the civic bodies can demolish the violated part under Demolition (Demolition of building, structures and tree) rule, 1994.
In Nagpur, there are 10 buildings mostly in Jaitala area that have violated the height rule for which MIL has made representations to NMC for 4-5 times but no action has been taken yet. The height obstruction is making pilots of the aircraft everytime hear Ground Proximity Warning leading to confusion during flying.
MIL is of the view that the buildings are not getting demolished and no option left with it than to reduce runway by 560 meters. This will disallow major aircraft like Airbus 320 to land at Nagpur airport. This will hamper the growth of Nagpur and also the chances of becoming international airport.
This alarming development has caught everybody unawares since few months ago tenders were floated for development of second runway and for construction of international airport, while ignoring this grim ground reality.
The then Municipal Commissioner Ashwin Mudgal had made it clear that the demolition of building obstructing landing or taking off the aircraft did not come in the jurisdiction of Nagpur Municipal Corporation. Under ‘The Aircraft (Demolition of obstructions caused by Buildings and Trees etc.) Rules, 1994’ Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) can ask developer to demolish the objectionable part.

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