Pokhara Airport design to be sent to Chinese bank for loan

Mar 15, 2017- The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan) is preparing to send the preliminary ‘procedural design’ of the proposed regional international airport in Pokhara to China EXIM Bank to acquire financing to build the much-awaited project.
The design contains aircraft operating procedures, details on airspace and runway threshold and the type of aircraft that can land at the airport, among other vital information.
The government signed a $215.96 million soft loan agreement with China in March 2016 for the construction of the new international airport in Pokhara. The proposed site of the airport in the tourist and commercial hub of the western region is located at Chinnedanda, 3 km east of Pokhara’s existing domestic airport.

According to Pradeep Adhikari, chief of the project, the lender China EXIM Bank has asked for a preliminary ‘procedural design’ of the proposed airport to make the loan effective. “We will send the procedural design next Monday.”