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Also, renewed request for transfer
of authority for project to state
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The Maharashtra government and
state-run City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) on Monday sought
the intervention of Ajit Singh, the Union civil aviation minister, for early
transfer of responsibility for the Navi Mumbai International Airport project
from the Airports Authority of India to the state.
Singh attended a meeting here,
chaired by state chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, to review the progress on
both the Navi Mumbai project and expansion of the Mumbai international airport.
Cidco, nodal state agency for the
project, also asked Singh to accord early approval to the formal Request for
Qualification (RFQ) document. Once the RFQ terms are approved, a global tender
can be floated for inviting entities to bid. “The minister has assured he would
give early approval,” Cidco chairman Pramod Hindurao told Business Standard.
As for the project transfer (in line
with the Greenfield Airports Policy, 2008), “If the Centre accepts the state’s
demand for transfer of the entire project, then all the approvals would (need
to) be (only) taken from the state government. Further, Cidco would be able to
issue RFQ at the earliest,” Hindurao said.
Of the 2,020 hectares required for
the airport project, nearly 1,400 hectare (ha) was in Cidco’s possession, while
the state government agreed to hand over another 150 ha. Cidco needs another
450 ha of private land, for which notices have been served under the Land
Acquisition Act, 1894.As reported recently, Cidco proposes handing over a total
of 22.5 per cent of the developed land to people who stand to lose theirs’ for
the project (from 10 villages in the area), instead of the monetary
compensation of Rs 20 crore per acre pressed for by those affected. The
proposed land would be provided by the Cidco management in Navi Mumbai and the
villagers would be entitled to use a portion of the developed land for
residential and commercial purposes. This is being discussed with
representatives of the project-affected people by a committee chaired by the
Konkan divisional commissioner.
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