Residents of 13 villages, including Parandur in Kancheepuram district on Sunday took a pledge to make an all-out effort to prevent the proposed airport from coming up in their area. Recently, gram sabhas, including those in Ekanapuram, Gunagarambakkam and Parandur, had passed resolutions against the proposal for the airport.
D. Hariparanthaman, former Judge of Madras High Court, who addressed the residents, suggested that the government could look at expanding the existing airport by using the land belonging to the Officers’ Training Academy (OTA).
