Navi Mumbai airport finally gets green signal

New Delhi: The country's financial capital will have a second international airport at last, with the Union ministries of environment and aviation and Maharashtra government's Cidco shifting their positions to meet each other half way.
The direly needed and much-delayed project has finally got the green clearance from the environment ministry and the tendering for the project will start soon.
The Rs 8,722-crore Navi Mumbai airport project, which will handle 60 million passengers per year, will take off soon, with civil aviation minister Praful Patel saying that the project could be clubbed into two phases, instead of the originally planned four, to try to make up for some of the lost time.
The project is expected to handle 25 million passengers per annum by the end of the second phase. "I think phases I and II will have to be taken up together due to the capacity crunch at the Mumbai airport. The first phase should be completed by 2014-15 at the most...One runway at the existing airport will be under daily repair from next year," Patel said.
23/11/10 Times of India

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