Nagpur Intl Airport handover: Ministry refers it to Cabinet

Mumbai/Nagpur: The civil aviation ministry has refused to hand over Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur to the newly formed joint venture company between the Maharashtra government and the ministry throwing a damper over aspirations of investors in the ambitious Multimodal International Hub Airport and Nagpur (MIHAN) project. The multi-crore project, being developed by Maharashtra Airport Development Company Limited (MADC), has several investors who are waiting for this handover before committing themselves.
The matter is now in the court where a local NGO, Vidarbha Economic Development Council, has filed a public interest litigation demanding the reasons for the delay in the handover.
Replying to a notice by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, the civil aviation ministry had, at first, given an assurance of ensuring smooth transfer of the airport and employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to the new joint venture. However, it failed to give a time frame in which the operation would be completed.
11/12/07 Business Standard

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