Utpal Baruah new COO of Kannur airport

NEW DELHI, Dec 13 - Assamese youth Utpal Baruah has been appointed as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Kerala�s Kannur Airport.

Baruah had joined the Airports Authority of India (AAI) in 1993 as communication engineer and served several airports including Guwahati, Goa, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Cebu in the Philippines.

Kannur airport, built at a cost of Rs 1,892 crore by the Kerala Government with the help of non-resident Keralites, is expected to serve the entire north Kerala and neighbouring places of Karnataka like Kurg and Mysore besides giving a fillip to the tourism industry in the State.

Baruah studied in Cotton College and did his engineering in Tamil Nadu before joining AAI.