Aviation ministry to take up Navi Mumbai airport issue with PMO

New Delhi: Representatives from the ministry of civil aviation along with other stakeholders of the Navi Mumbai airport are expected to meet officials in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in the hopes to remove new hurdles that have cropped up with the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) rejecting the environment clearance given to the project by the National Coastal Zone Management Authority (NCZMA).
The MoEF has "ignored recommendations of the NCZMA that cleared the project site late last year despite issues related to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) that part of the tentative site falls in. We are now trying to get all stakeholders to meet the principal secretary to sort out this mess,” a civil aviation ministry official said. The MoEF had rejected the environment clearance last week.
The airport is expected to come up on around 2,750 acres of land in Navi Mumbai. According to sources in the ministry, nearly 1,140 hectares of land is needed to accommodate two parallel runways for simultaneous, segregated flight operations with full-length taxiways on either side of the runways.
17/04/08 Shauvik Ghosh/Financial Express

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