Bardhan suggests shifting MIHAN away from city

Nagpur: Expressing solidarity with the farmers in Shivangaon whose land is under acquisition for the MIHAN (Multi-modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur) project, Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan wondered why it could not be shifted some kilometres away from the city.
The cargo hub project, as MIHAN is popularly known, has been taken up in tandem with the multi-product SEZ that is being developed alongside the Sonegaon airport under expansion.
"Don't budge an inch from here unless a fair compensation is offered to you and a proper rehabilitation scheme is in place," Bardhan exhorted the Shivangaon residents who are set to lose both their houses and agricultural land.
The moderately sized Sonegaon airport is set to metamorphose into one of the biggest in the country as a part of the ambitious MIHAN project. While 644 hectares of land in Shivangaon is under acquisition for the airport expansion, over 2,000 hectares have been acquired for the SEZ.
The proposed Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) depot of aviation giant Boeing is a part of the MIHAN-SEZ project, which its executive head R.C. Sinha claims to be the biggest ongoing project in the country.
01/07/07 IANS/Economic Times

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