Navi Mumbai airport revamp gains pace

New Delhi: The bidding for Navi Mumbai airport is set to begin in few months. Aviation secretary Ashok Chawla has laid out a firm timeframe for having the much-required Navi Mumbai airport ready just in time when the existing CSIA Airport there peaks out by end of 2012.
He recently asked the steering committee of the planned airport to invite proposals for appointing a consultant for the Rs 9,970-crore project.
"The chosen consultant will prepare the bid document in the next three to four months. The bid will be issued by March and after evaluation, finalised by next October," the official said. "Then the chosen party will have to complete the new airport by end of 2012, just when the CSIA airport will peak out as traffic will be more than its annual capacity of 40 million after that," the official added.
Thirty-five km from CSIA, this airport will be built at Panvel in four phases up to 2028 in an area of 1,140 hectares. Almost 70% of the required land is already in government possession and Cidco is acquiring the rest.
21/08/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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