Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authorit eyes airport land

Mumbai: With its own land bank exhausting, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is trying to acquire as much land as possible for the city’s infrastructure development. As a part of this drive, the authority now has its eyes firmly set on the airport land.
The MMRDA, which has been appointed the Special Planning Authority (SPA) for the airport land, has called for suggestions and objections from people for developing the land in the near future.
The domestic and international airports, together, are spread across 2,290.69 acres. Out of this, 308.84 acres has been encroached by slums. With just 276 acres officially declared as land for slums, the Mumbai International Airport Ltd (Mial) — a joint consortium of Airport Authority of India (AAI) and JVK — has already started the rehabilitation of slums with the help from Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL).
The state government has appointed MMRDA as the nodal agency to carry out the rehabilitation process, and the the authority plans to utilise this land for development purposes once the rehabilitation is complete.
01/01/10 Ninad Siddhaye/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Jan 2010