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Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport
Samshabad
India's first world-class greenfield airport built in the public-private partnership at Hyderabad was inaugurated.
The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad, about 30 km from the city, the new icon in Hyderabad.
Built at a cost of Rs 2,500 crore, the airport is being billed as India's first truly world-class airport, offering
facilities on par with those at Oslo, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore airports. The developers claim
this project would take Indian airports to a new era.
Designed to handle 1.2 crore passengers in the first phase, the airport is expected to make the city an
international hub on par with Dubai and Singapore and a cargo hub of Southeast Asia |