UN award fails to hide airports shaky foundations.
EVEN as the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) picked up the United Nations Champions of the Earth award in the ‘entrepreneurial vision’ category, for being the world’s first fully solar powered airport, back home in Kochi, Kerala, people have been pro testing the diversion of the Chengal creek to build the airport, which resulted in largescale destruction of houses and crops during the recent floods. At CIAL’s 24th annual general body meeting, many shareholders stood in queue to lambast the board of directors for not having a solution in place to prevent flooding of the air port and its surrounding areas when the river Periyar overflows. As the state government holds 32 per cent of the shares, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan was also present as chairman of the board and took much flak.
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