Mumbai: An agreement between land owners and the Maharashtra government paves the way for construction of the new airport to begin at Navi Mumbai. While this is definitely an important milestone that the government was keen to achieve ahead of the parliamentary elections, several other significant hurdles need to be crossed before this project - first conceived way back in 1998, actually becomes a reality.
Those in the know of things expect the RFQ (Request For Quotation) for the project to be issued by the end of the year and the bid process to start simultaneously, but the actual award is unlikely to happen before the end of 2014. That means the airport, if all goes well, will be operational not before 2020.
"Even though the land acquisition process is now complete and that’s definitely a big milestone crossed, we expect certain environmental problems to crop up going ahead” Kapil Kaul - CEO South Asia, CAPA the aviation consultancy told Business Standard. In fact Debi Goenka, an environmental activist and managing trustee of the Conservation Act Trust, was quoted by the Mint Newspaper just yesterday as saying that CIDCO, the nodal agency for the project, has a long way to go before it can start constructing the airport. Goenka said his teams were working towards challenging the decision to give the environmental clearance for the project which was secured 3 years ago.
13/11/13 Business Standard
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Those in the know of things expect the RFQ (Request For Quotation) for the project to be issued by the end of the year and the bid process to start simultaneously, but the actual award is unlikely to happen before the end of 2014. That means the airport, if all goes well, will be operational not before 2020.
"Even though the land acquisition process is now complete and that’s definitely a big milestone crossed, we expect certain environmental problems to crop up going ahead” Kapil Kaul - CEO South Asia, CAPA the aviation consultancy told Business Standard. In fact Debi Goenka, an environmental activist and managing trustee of the Conservation Act Trust, was quoted by the Mint Newspaper just yesterday as saying that CIDCO, the nodal agency for the project, has a long way to go before it can start constructing the airport. Goenka said his teams were working towards challenging the decision to give the environmental clearance for the project which was secured 3 years ago.
13/11/13 Business Standard
