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Chennai airport in shambles

16 Sep 2014 00:53:57

deccanherald.com

The glass and steel facade is smooth and impeccable. But looks can be deceiving as the modern Chennai Airport's international and domestic terminals, renovated at a cost of Rs 2,015 crore, is a crumbling edifice wrapped in swanky concrete.


Shoddy work has reduced the whole modernisation exercise of the airport to one of mirth and ridicule as there are cracks in the ceiling, tiles have fallen off, roofs leak, toilets stink and even the flooring is broken.


The misfortune of falling glass panes and false ceiling collapse continues to haunt Chennai with the number of such mishaps going up to 20 since the new terminals were commissioned in 2013.


Chennai airport was once the best airport in the country. But today, it is in a bad shape. There is no attractive interior plan to install art or sculpture to engage the passengers a bit either.


With the mobile phone technology at its peak, none of the passengers bother to even look at the old stereotyped pay phones "œattractively" installed near the security check area.


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