With four months left for deadline, only 50% of work on Chennai airport’s T3 Terminal completed
Construction of the T3 Terminal at Chennai airport is significantly behind schedule, with only 50% completion despite a looming deadline. The Airports Authority of India is pressuring the contractor to finish by December 2026, rejecting requests for further extensions.
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Infrastructure delays impact operational capacity and economic efficiency, highlighting the challenges of long-term project management amidst fluctuating material costs.
With just four months left for the deadline, only about 50% of the T3 Terminal construction at Chennai airport has been completed so far.
Officials of Airports Authority of India (AAI) said while the contractor constructing the T3 Terminal had sought an extension of the deadline till March 2027, AAI has not agreed to it as yet.
A high-level inspection was held on Friday with a team of officials from the Ministry of Civil Aviation and AAI.
They inspected various ongoing projects within the airport. “A few members of the high-level team were not happy with the progress of the T3 Terminal construction,” a source said.
But AAI officials said, though the overall physical progress is about 50%, nearly 80% of the mobilisation of the materials has been completed already, and hence it is possible to complete the construction by December.
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