While thousands of passengers suffer delays and congestion at the domestic airport here, plans for a greenfield airport at Panvel continue to move at a snail's pace.
The civil aviation ministry is learnt to have given its in-principle approval on the last but one day of 2015 for financial bids (request for proposals) for the long-delayed Navi Mumbai international airport.
Mumbai airport, which handles nearly 35 million passengers every year, has almost reached saturation point. In fact, air congestion at Mumbai results in frequent delays of flights all over the country. Plans for a new airport at Panvel in Navi Mumbai were first mooted in 1997.
More than 10 years later, the Maharashtra government appointed City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) as the nodal agency for executing the project and gave its approval. However, even after a delay of eight years, the Rs150 billion project has failed to take off.
01/01/16 Nithin Belle/Khaleej Times
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The civil aviation ministry is learnt to have given its in-principle approval on the last but one day of 2015 for financial bids (request for proposals) for the long-delayed Navi Mumbai international airport.
Mumbai airport, which handles nearly 35 million passengers every year, has almost reached saturation point. In fact, air congestion at Mumbai results in frequent delays of flights all over the country. Plans for a new airport at Panvel in Navi Mumbai were first mooted in 1997.
More than 10 years later, the Maharashtra government appointed City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) as the nodal agency for executing the project and gave its approval. However, even after a delay of eight years, the Rs150 billion project has failed to take off.
01/01/16 Nithin Belle/Khaleej Times
