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Purulia is one of the most backward districts of West Bengal with hardly any industrial or agricultural activity due to a variety of reasons. West Bengal Government is believed to have initiated a move to set up a cargo airport with an air cargo complex there, preferably in private partnership. The location too has been identified: an abandoned airstrip of the Second World War. The size of the airstrip, estimated at several hundred acres, is not small. However, the State G overnment’s initial effort in this regard has not been much of a success. The EoIs invited by the State transport department from private firms are believed to have evoked poor response. There was only one response. But this is not surprising, considering the past experience. There is no dearth of abandoned airfields in the State and from time to time, the State Government will come out with its pious wishes for developing them for one purpose or the other, though not with much headway so far. But the poor response to the Purulia project has not dispirited the State Government. Undaunted, it is mulling floating a global tender.

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