Navi Mumbai: The strategy of the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) MD, Sanjay Bhatia, and joint MD, V Radha, of involving local political representatives and spending time with villagers for the airport project to move ahead has paid off. It has helped resolve much of impasse with the villagers for the Rs 15,000-crore Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) project.
Apart from engaging local leaders, they announced a slew of development projects too for the villagers. This has boosted the confidence of the villagers, who will get uprooted from their ancestral homes once their lands are acquired for the project.
The two senior officers were quick to realize that mere meetings and taking administrative decisions wouldn't help. So, they took the help of political leaders to cross the hurdles.
The political face of Cidco, chairman Pramod Hindu Rao, told TOI on Thursday while laying the foundation stone for the development of Pushpak Nagar, "My only request is more development for villagers."
01/06/14 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
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Apart from engaging local leaders, they announced a slew of development projects too for the villagers. This has boosted the confidence of the villagers, who will get uprooted from their ancestral homes once their lands are acquired for the project.
The two senior officers were quick to realize that mere meetings and taking administrative decisions wouldn't help. So, they took the help of political leaders to cross the hurdles.
The political face of Cidco, chairman Pramod Hindu Rao, told TOI on Thursday while laying the foundation stone for the development of Pushpak Nagar, "My only request is more development for villagers."
01/06/14 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
