Second international airport in Mumbai set to take off

Mumbai: Mumbai's second international airport is set to "take-off" with the Union Cabinet likely to approve the long-awaited project next month.
"We are confident of a positive response from the Cabinet next month. We expect to start work by May as our feasibility report has been well accepted by civil aviation authorities, Deepak Kapoor, Joint Managing Director of CIDCO, under whose aegis the project is coming up, said here.
"The project is expected to be complete by 2013," he said, adding "Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh are taking a personal interest...meetings have just been held with CIDCO," Kapoor told PTI.
"The global tenders are in place, the IL&FS PDR has been approved and everything is ready...we are just waiting to begin," a confident Kapoor said.
The Rs 9000-crore, 4F-ICAO code friendly, green-field airport, fourth such in the country, will make Mumbai the only city in India to have two international airports, putting it on an elite global aviation map.
19/03/07 PTI/The Hindu

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