CM doesn't want new airport to do an SEZ
Ensure minimum displacement & proper rehabilitation, Deshmukh tells Cidco.
By TNN |
MUMBAI: THE Maharashtra government has asked City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) to ensure that the second airport project in Navi Mumbai makes a minimal socio-economic impact on the residents.
Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, at a recent meeting directed Cidco, which has been designated as the nodal agency for developing Mumbai’s second international airport near Panvel, to implement the project in such a manner that minimum number of people are affected by the project.
At a presentation before the chief minister, the Cidco team led by managing director GS Gill told the state government that the project could affect around 16,000 people. Apparently alarmed by a spate of protests over industrial projects coming up in and around Navi Mumbai including two SEZs, the chief minister asked Cidco officials to ensure that the airport project affected people get the best of rehabilitation package.
The Cidco informed the government that Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has been engaged to conduct a socio-economic impact survey in the region. The study report would help the government arrive at a mutually-agreed compensation package, the officials said.
The central government has already issued notification announcing the Rs 4600 crore second airport project and its location. The airport is proposed to come up over 1600 hectares of land of which Cidco is already in possession of 1150 hectares, officials said.
Process for acquiring the remaining 450 hectares is at an advanced stage without any major problem, Cidco officials told the government. With the site falling in the coastal region, Cidco has already applied filed an application for clearances with the Coastal Regulatory Zone Authority.
A Pune-based central government organisation Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS) has been asked to conduct a hydrological study. Cidco estimates that the second international airport would get operationalised by 2012.
Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, at a recent meeting directed Cidco, which has been designated as the nodal agency for developing Mumbai’s second international airport near Panvel, to implement the project in such a manner that minimum number of people are affected by the project.
At a presentation before the chief minister, the Cidco team led by managing director GS Gill told the state government that the project could affect around 16,000 people. Apparently alarmed by a spate of protests over industrial projects coming up in and around Navi Mumbai including two SEZs, the chief minister asked Cidco officials to ensure that the airport project affected people get the best of rehabilitation package.
The Cidco informed the government that Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has been engaged to conduct a socio-economic impact survey in the region. The study report would help the government arrive at a mutually-agreed compensation package, the officials said.
The central government has already issued notification announcing the Rs 4600 crore second airport project and its location. The airport is proposed to come up over 1600 hectares of land of which Cidco is already in possession of 1150 hectares, officials said.
Process for acquiring the remaining 450 hectares is at an advanced stage without any major problem, Cidco officials told the government. With the site falling in the coastal region, Cidco has already applied filed an application for clearances with the Coastal Regulatory Zone Authority.
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A Pune-based central government organisation Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS) has been asked to conduct a hydrological study. Cidco estimates that the second international airport would get operationalised by 2012.
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