Delhi Government to Investigate Collapse of Roof at Brand New Airport

[Naim 6]

I've not been to DEL since the new terminal, but one thing I can tell, the old terminal was utterly terrible!

 

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Delhi Government to Investigate Collapse of Roof at Brand New Airport

 

Posted by: Mehul Srivastava on August 25

 

Shed a tear for Delhi’s residents. First, the city baked for months as the monsoons decided to skip a year.

 

Then, one hour of rain on Friday, and the city almost fell apart. 74 millimeters of rain – nothing close to Noah’s-Ark like – and roads flooded, electricity got knocked out, and a brand new $100 million airport sprung leaks, resembling a wedge of Swiss cheese more than the first stop for millions of passengers to one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

 

The airport shut down for over an hour in the middle of peak Friday evening traffic, as computers had to be shut down, planes were cancelled, X-Ray machines were wrapped up in plastic and passengers shared umbrellas indoors.

 

(This, btw, is the new terminal - the old one, now mercifully being shut down, came in second in Foreign Policy magazine’s 2007 list of the world’s worst airports, pipped to the finishing line by Dakar, Senegal’s standing-room-only terminal)

 

But unlike most storms, the one over the airport roof collapse hasn’t passed. Built by an Indian company called GMR infrastructure under India’s much-criticized public-private-partnership model, the new airport terminal was meant to be the first phase of Delhi converting itself into a truly global city. The government has ordered an inquiry into how exactly a brand new airport – this one opened in May 2009 for full service – falls apart after a one-hour thunderstorm.

 

It’s a big deal for the Delhi Government. In October 2010, hundreds of thousands of tourists, thousands of athletes and a few hundred media folks will descend on Delhi for the Commonwealth Games. To showcase itself to the world, Delhi set aside $12 billion for infrastructure programs, many of which now seem to be either behind schedule or below standard.

 

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/08/delhi_governmen.html

[C.Foo 3]

Love to see pictures.

Let me guess very cheap and poor materials

[flee 5]

There projects are just like Malaysia's... bridges and roofs all fall down...

[Ja Singh 2]

There projects are just like Malaysia's... bridges and roofs all fall down...

 

you mean putrajaya ah