NGO to market Nagpur airport project

Nagpur: A few days after the union cabinet decided to upgrade the Ambedkar International Airport here to an aviation hub, a city-based NGO has unfolded a plan to promote the project.
The Maharashtra Airport Development Co (MADC) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) will jointly develop the Multi-modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN).
The Vidarbha Economic Development (VED) Council, the NGO that fought a legal battle for the expeditious transfer of the airport to the state-owned company, would hold a MIHAN expo here in partnership with global business consultants Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu in November, VED president Vilas Kale told IANS.
Though VED is not directly involved in implementing the project, it has received several inquiries and proposals from investors and business consultancy firms abroad because it has been working closely with MADC.
'Many overseas industrial business firms have shown interest to set up their units in the MIHAN special economic zone (SEZ). We hope to convert that interest into investment,' Kale said.
20/01/08 India PRwire

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