NIIT Tech wins Rs 344 crore contract from Airports Authority of India

BANGALORE: Delhi-based IT services company NIIT Technologies said it has won a technology contract from the Airports Authority of India worth Rs 344 crore.

The multi-year contract is for the integration of IT systems at the operations control centers at about 10 airports in India. The initiative is part of an airport modernisation initiative by India's civil aviation ministry headed by Ajit Singh.

NIIT said the project will be executed over the next 15 months at airports in Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Tiruchirapalli, Thiruvananthapuram, Calicut, Mangalore, Guwahati and Jaipur, the company said in a statement on Thursday. At Chennai and Kolkata airports, NIIT will set up a data centre and a disaster recovery data centre. The project could be extended to 25 airports, according to NIIT.

"Airport Operations Control Centers will allow collaborative decision making for all the Airport operators in the day-to-day operations," Arvind Mehrotra, president, Asia-Pacific & Middle East, NIIT Technologies said in the statement.

Pune based software firm KPIT Cummins had recently implemented SAP based enterprise resource planning (ERP) softwares at the Airport Authority of India.The project is expected to cover over 125 airports acorss India.

Mehrotra said the company had previously implemented IT solutions at 12 airports including Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.