Prithviraj Chavan seeks help from all parties for Mihan land acquisition

Nagpur: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday reiterated Maharashtra government's commitment to develop ambitious Mihan project, supposedly a harbinger of change for this region. While replying to calling attention motion moved by Shiv Sena MLCs - Nilam Gorhe, Diwakar Raote, Ramdas Kadam Dr Dipak Sawant and others - the CM exhorted all parties and local people to extend helping hand in land acquisition project for the mega project. Around 4,188.64 hectares of land would be required for the project and efforts were on acquire 3008.84 hectares for the first phase. Chavan admitted that the much-hyped project could not take off due to recession, opposition by the local people and also delay in acquiring land. SQ Zama and Nilam Gorhe participated in the discussion.
"We are serious about overall development of Vidarbha through Mihan project," he said, adding that second runway was must for the project to actually take off. "The aviation companies would not be able to work if it is not constructed," he pointed out.
Chavan accepted that there were some differences with union defence ministry over transfer of Gajraj land to the Mihan India Limited (MIL), a joint venture between Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC).
23/12/11 Times of India

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