Central teams to inspect Navi Mumbai airport site

Mumbai: A team of Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials is scheduled to examine Navi Mumbai airport site on Saturday.
Separately, representatives of the expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests are also slated to examine the site over the weekend. The location of the project has been sore point between the civil aviation ministry and environment ministry.
A dialogue between Praful Patel and Jairam Ramesh, who head the respective ministries, last week seems to have led to a thaw. Both the ministers are believed to have okayed the airport site provided the Maharashtra government and the ministry of civil aviation abide by the guidelines issued by the EAC.
31/08/10 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis

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