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Private party to keep animals off Shirdi airport

While the Shirdi airport area has high boundary walls to restrict entry of animals, wildlife management is a process that every airport has to undertake, according to MADC officials.

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The Maharashtra Airport Development Corporation (MADC) is going to appoint a private party for chasing and scaring wild animals away from the runway at Shirdi airport. “Keeping wildlife away from the runway is crucial to avoid any clash during landing and taking off the aircraft,” MADC officials said.

The Shirdi airport was made operational in October 2017 under the government’s plan to have more airports by connecting smaller cities or towns. While the Shirdi airport area has high boundary walls to restrict entry of animals, wildlife management is a process that every airport has to undertake, according to MADC officials. 

There have been several incidents where dog or cow have entered the runway, thus obstructing the movements of aircraft at several airports in the country.

Suresh Kakani, Managing Director of MADC which operates Shirdi airport, said, “There have been no incidents of wildlife entering airport premises or runway since the airport was made operational, but it is standard norm that every airport have to undertake wildlife management to avoid any untoward incident.”

Kakani added, “By using the word wildlife here we do not mean animals like tiger, leopard and nor is the airport surrounded by such animals, but wildlife also includes dogs, cats, cows, mice. Even a dog or mice entering has to be avoided to keep runway free of any obstacle. Also wildlife includes monkeys as they can enter from anywhere despite we constructing high boundary walls.”

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  • The Shirdi airport was made operational in October 2017.
     
  • There have been several incidents of dogs or cows on the runway, obstructing aircraft movements at several airports in the country.
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