Check out DIAL!!

The impending upgrades of the DIAL and the MIAL are being eagerly awaited for quite a while now, and things looked positively ahead last month when the Delhi High Court rejected Reliance Energy's appeal against the contract being awarded to the GMR consortium.

After a long wait, the plans for Delhi International Airport (DIAL) are finally out. The airport will be a massive structure, no doubt, but personally, I was hoping for a snazzier design. I hope that does not make me an ungrateful person. The bottom line, of course, is that anything will be better than these current shitpots we all call our airports. So I am glad that this plan is finally off the ground, and while it is unfortunate that our government still decided to give the Airports Authority of India some stake in the project, the good thing is that it is only limited to 13%, thus effectively nullifying their vetoing ability. As we will all agree, bloody netas love to veto a good idea in favor of their own benefits. Hopefully our airports will not have to see this in the future.

Next stop: Privatizing the Kolkata and Chennai airports. Meanwhile, the new plans for DIAL are being enthusiastically discussed at the SSC forum, and I invite you all to partake with the rest of us Indian infrastructure fanatics.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=347516

As somebody once said, "Yeh century humare haathon mein hai, Sir." Inshallah.