Ramesh returns Patel salvo on airport delay

New Delhi: The minister of environment and forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, has entered into a fresh round of confrontation with the civil aviation minister, Mr Praful Patel.
Mr Patel , had last week accused Mr Ramesh of delaying the construction of the Navi Mumbai airport but Mr Ramesh has shot off a letter warning that its construction will involve decimating a 300-acre mangrove forests that protects the Navi Mumbai shoreline and the diversion of two rivers which flow into the Panvel Creek.
The letter dated July 3 emphasises that the Navi Mumbai airport “is not pending with the MoEF.”
Tracing the MoEF’s involvement with this issue, Mr Ramesh stated that his ministry received the proposal for developing a greenfield airport on 27 June, 2007, but the final amendment of the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) notification allowing for a mangrove forest to be converted into an airport was issued two years later on 15 May, 2009.
06/07/10 Deccan Chronicle

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