Navi Mumbai airport: CIDCO moves quick on ‘star project’

Mumbai: On September 3, newspapers across the globe will carry tender advertisements seeking a consultant for the Greenfield airport to be built at Navi Mumbai. “Within eight to 10 weeks, we should have a consultant with international expertise on board,” said G S Gill, vice-chairman and managing director of the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO), which is developing the Rs 10,000-crore airport, to sprawl over 2,000 hectares of land.
While Gill called the proposed airport CIDCO’s “star” project, other officials said the consultant will prepare the Detailed Project Report by early next year, to meet the target of beginning at least partial operations by 2012. Gill even admitted that the airport should have already been in existence by now.
“After getting in-principle approval from the Government of India and the CIDCO board, it has now gone to the Government of Maharashtra,” he said, adding that focused work on three areas continues in the meantime: Appointing the consultant, obtaining the environmental clearances “expeditiously” and acquiring the balance land, about 500 hectares, spread across seven or eight villages.
27/08/07 Kavitha Iyer/Expressindia.com

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