Thursday, July 07, 2016

Airport encroachments to be legal

Mumbai: Encroached structures outside the core area of Navi Mumbai airport will become beneficiaries of the ambitious project, as the state has decided to regularise it as well.
The state, which is under pressure to complete the airport work by 2019, has decided to get rid of the land acquisition process by legalising illegal structures till September 2013 so that construction work can commence. The project has been long pending and was stuck in land acquisition disputes and environment permissions.
A meeting regarding the airport was held last week. It was headed by CM Devendra Fadnavis, attended by City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) officials and local representatives. In the meeting, the government also brought some changes in the rehabilitation policy so that the project affected people (PAP) gets maximum benefits without further opposition.
“The structures that encroach upon Cidco land but are built outside the core area of the Navi Mumbai airport must also be given the same benefits as the earlier regularised structures. The decision has been taken keeping in view that these illegal structures may later fall in the core area if or when increased. But the cut-off date of September, 2013 will remain unchanged,” the CM’s note in the meeting said.
The collector has been given six months’ times to implement the decision.
The structures within core area of the project will get three times the land and additional benefits.
07/07/16 Asian Age
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