The proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport is expected to be operational in three years and the first flight is targeted to take off from there in 2019, Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao said on Wednesday.
"The Navi Mumbai International Airport has received excellent response in the qualifying round of global tenders. It is targeted that the first flight take off from there in 2019," Rao announced in his address to a joint sessesion of Maharashtra legislature at the beginning of the budget session which began on Wednesday.
In preparation for the new international airport, the CIDCO will develop a Smart City, NAINA, which comprises 30 towns around the airport, he said, adding this will focus on work areas pertaining to education, medical, entertainment, logistics, commerce, science, industry, etc, and the government has already notified an area of 600 square km. for it.
Simultaneously, CIDCO will invest Rs 35,000 crores to develop the South Navi Mumbai as a brownfield Smart City covering seven towns over an area of around 7,700 hectares.
In this, the main focus would be on projects like affordable housing, metro corridors, economic and infrastructure development projects along with Port City Development, scheduled for completion by 2019, Rao said.
Supplementing these would be other major infrastructure projects in and around Mumbai and elsewhere in the state, including construction of the new bridge across Thane Creek to ease congestion between Mumbai-Navi Mumbai, will be taken up this year.
09/03/16 F.India
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"The Navi Mumbai International Airport has received excellent response in the qualifying round of global tenders. It is targeted that the first flight take off from there in 2019," Rao announced in his address to a joint sessesion of Maharashtra legislature at the beginning of the budget session which began on Wednesday.
In preparation for the new international airport, the CIDCO will develop a Smart City, NAINA, which comprises 30 towns around the airport, he said, adding this will focus on work areas pertaining to education, medical, entertainment, logistics, commerce, science, industry, etc, and the government has already notified an area of 600 square km. for it.
Simultaneously, CIDCO will invest Rs 35,000 crores to develop the South Navi Mumbai as a brownfield Smart City covering seven towns over an area of around 7,700 hectares.
In this, the main focus would be on projects like affordable housing, metro corridors, economic and infrastructure development projects along with Port City Development, scheduled for completion by 2019, Rao said.
Supplementing these would be other major infrastructure projects in and around Mumbai and elsewhere in the state, including construction of the new bridge across Thane Creek to ease congestion between Mumbai-Navi Mumbai, will be taken up this year.
09/03/16 F.India
