Navi Mumbai airport plan gets PMO boost

Mumbai: After a delay of more than a decade, the Prime Minister's Office has approved a road map for the Rs 6,000-crore airport for Navi Mumbai. "A month ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had presided over a meeting to review the flagship projects of the UPA government. Now the PMO has approved the plan for the Navi Mumbai airport and key railway projects in Maharashtra and Gujarat. It was for the first time that mechanisms have been put in place for regular monitoring and problem solving,'' a senior official told TOI on Saturday.The official said for the Navi Mumbai airport, the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) has been appointed as the nodal agency and it has prepared the transaction documents. "The civil aviation ministry will discuss the matter with the state government and secure its concurrence for selecting the process for awarding the contract on PPP basis. The entire process will be completed by August 15, 2012 after all the relevant documents are cleared by the government of India,'' he said.
29/07/12 Prafulla Marapakwar/Times of India

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