Mumbai: Three senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials are being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly tweaking rules to reduce fees to grant no-objection certificates to real estate projects in the vicinity of the Juhu airport, thereby causing loss of around Rs 11 crore to the cash-starved AAI.
The officials on the CBI radar have been identified as J M Negi, general manager, no-objection certificate department, deputy general manager S KDasgupta, and V K Datta.
According to civic aviation guidelines, buildings aren't allowed within 300 mt of a runway, and height of the buildings near airports shouldn't be more than four per cent of its distance from the edge of the runway. For instance, if a building is a km from a runway, it can be around 30 mt tall (roughly seven storeys). However, in February 2011, a special committee of AAI, headed by the then executive director Negi, submitted a report saying the Juhu airport runway 16/34 was no longer operational as per the AAI records, and it shouldn't be a factor while issuing no-objection certificates to real estate projects in the vicinity.
20/08/13 Abhijit Sathe/Mumbai Mirror
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The officials on the CBI radar have been identified as J M Negi, general manager, no-objection certificate department, deputy general manager S KDasgupta, and V K Datta.
According to civic aviation guidelines, buildings aren't allowed within 300 mt of a runway, and height of the buildings near airports shouldn't be more than four per cent of its distance from the edge of the runway. For instance, if a building is a km from a runway, it can be around 30 mt tall (roughly seven storeys). However, in February 2011, a special committee of AAI, headed by the then executive director Negi, submitted a report saying the Juhu airport runway 16/34 was no longer operational as per the AAI records, and it shouldn't be a factor while issuing no-objection certificates to real estate projects in the vicinity.
20/08/13 Abhijit Sathe/Mumbai Mirror
