Land acquisition for Mumbai's planned airport at Panvel has dragged on, as the owners demand . 20 crore an acre — about five times the market value. The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), the nodal agency for the project, claims that the land purchase should be over soon, and the airport should be operational in 2017. That is unlikely. The airport site is about the worst anywhere, from the ecological and civil engineering viewpoints.
Developers will have to change the course of the Ulwe River, widen the Gadhi River to avoid flooding, construct embankments of three smaller rivers, fill up Panvel Creek and reclaim the land around Waghivli Island. They will also have to level two hillocks , cut down 160 hectares of mangrove forests that protect the coast against erosion, and 130 hectares of reserved forest.
21/10/13 Hormuz P Mama/Economic Times
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Developers will have to change the course of the Ulwe River, widen the Gadhi River to avoid flooding, construct embankments of three smaller rivers, fill up Panvel Creek and reclaim the land around Waghivli Island. They will also have to level two hillocks , cut down 160 hectares of mangrove forests that protect the coast against erosion, and 130 hectares of reserved forest.
21/10/13 Hormuz P Mama/Economic Times
