Parandur airport mission to be dropped by Tamil Nadu authorities, pronounces CM Vijay

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Monday (August 24, 2026) launched his authorities’s decision to drop the proposed airport at Parandur and decide varied web sites for a model new Chennai airport. Making a suo motu assertion throughout the Assembly, he said a model new terminal, Terminal 5, might be developed throughout the north-western house of Chennai airport in collaboration with the Airports Authority of India (AAI), along with an technique freeway and a flyover.

The precept Opposition DMK sought to speak on the problem, nevertheless Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar said he would not allow a debate on an announcement made beneath Rule 110 of the Assembly. Former Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu said he was not looking for to debate the problem nevertheless wished to make a clarification. The DMK members walked out after the Speaker stood his flooring.

The Chief Minister said he had consulted consultants on the creation of a model new airport and a few varied web sites had been acknowledged with out inflicting rather a lot hurt to farmland and human settlements.

“The positioning shall be finalised after studying the technical feasibility and consulting the departments concerned,” he said, recalling his go to to Parandur in 2025 to specific solidarity with the protesting farmers and his earlier announcement at Vikravandi opposing the airport mission.

He said Chennai airport was in the intervening time coping with 30 million passengers a 12 months and that the potential would enhance to 35 million as quickly as Terminal 3 was achieved. “After the completion of Terminal 5, the passenger functionality will enhance by one different 55 million a 12 months. It’ll improve the businesses and transport companies until a model new airport is achieved,” he said.

The Chief Minister said he was completely acutely aware of the place of airports in industrial development nevertheless maintained that an airport should not be constructed at Parandur as it’d affect large tracts of farmland and human settlements. “Nonetheless the sooner authorities tried to create a model new airport on the value of farmers, their lands and human settlements,” he said.