Panvel: Days after Cidco chairman Pramod Hindurao affirmed work on the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) will begin in three to four months, farmers whose land was to be acquired for the project have upped the ante and called for a meeting on January 14 that will be chaired by former judge BG Kolse-Patil. They claim that villages where the work of land measurements had begun are opposing the project, too.
Mahendra Patil, sarpanch of Pargaon, one of the villages opposed to the airport project, claimed, “Even those in Targhar and Kopar villages where Cidco has started making land measurements, are now opposed to the project. Farmers from these villages will be joining us in the meeting on January 14. Somewhere down the line, farmers from those villages, too, have woken up to the double standards adopted by Cidco.”
Patil also came down severely on the political leaders in the region, who he alleged have been misleading people by claiming that villages have cooled down their opposition. “The six villages continue to oppose the project. We have now come together under a new banner and have formed a committee which includes professionals and well-educated people and will be taking our fight to the corridors of the state government,” Patil said.
09/01/14 Rahul M Tawade/Daily News & Analysis
To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline
Mahendra Patil, sarpanch of Pargaon, one of the villages opposed to the airport project, claimed, “Even those in Targhar and Kopar villages where Cidco has started making land measurements, are now opposed to the project. Farmers from these villages will be joining us in the meeting on January 14. Somewhere down the line, farmers from those villages, too, have woken up to the double standards adopted by Cidco.”
Patil also came down severely on the political leaders in the region, who he alleged have been misleading people by claiming that villages have cooled down their opposition. “The six villages continue to oppose the project. We have now come together under a new banner and have formed a committee which includes professionals and well-educated people and will be taking our fight to the corridors of the state government,” Patil said.
09/01/14 Rahul M Tawade/Daily News & Analysis
