Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Work begins at airport site, but some issues yet to be finalised

Navi Mumbai: Some groundwork of levelling the core area of the Navi Mumbai international airport (NMIA) has started. Cidco, which will undertake the cutting of 92 meter odd high Ulwe hill and diversion of the eponymous river has started some basic works even as the crucial stage II forest clearance is awaited from the MoEF and a parcel of the tender for hill cutting awaits finalisation.
Cidco senior PRO, Mohan Ninawe told TOI Wednesday, " machinery has been deployed on the site and work has started, but the hill cutting will start only after the entire tender is finalised. Also, the forest clearance is expected any time soon. Raigad collector, Sheetal Ugale has submitted the papers to the MoEF."
The hill cutting tender is worth around Rs 2000 crore. The first two parts of the tender said to be around Rs 550 crore was repackaged due to change in engineering works and design for combining the cutting and diversion of the Ulwe river. This part of the tender is currently under tendering process. The other two parts (around Rs 1450) have been finalised.
12/10/16 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
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