The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has cleared the site in Rajgurunagar proposed for the Pune International airport. The feasibility study has been on for a month and the survey report is to be handed over to the Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC).
Officials who were part of the survey stated that the "AAI has given the green signal for the proposed site at Rajgurunagar" and that a meeting would be held with the CM next week to take the project ahead.
The site surveyed by the team included Pait, Dhamne, Raundharwadi, Askhed Budruk, Kiwle and Kurkundi villages in Rajgurunagar area. A central team had in December conducted an aerial survey in two choppers and that was followed by a detailed survey by an AAI team last month. The central team, after a recce of the areas, had given "in-principle" approval. Talks would now move on for land acquisition after the techno-feasibility study.
08/02/13 Nisha Nambiar/Indian Express
