When will Navi Mumbai airport project take off?
By
Dinesh Kamath
NAVI
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government is deciding as to how much compensation
should be paid to acquire the remaining land for the Navi Mumbai airport
project. The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has been asked
whether in this case too the land owners should be paid the same amount as paid
to land owners from nearby areas in other projects.
CIDCO has succeeded in acquiring 70% of
the land. But the land owners are refusing to part with the remaining land since
they want the compensation to be on par with what is offered to other
project-affected persons in other areas.
The government showed willingness, if
necessary, to provide different compensation package to the land that has to be
still acquired. CIDCO had proposed to give back 12.5% of the land acquired from
each individual back to them after development in some of the other projects in
the district.
There are some PAPs who claim that they
have not been given anything yet even after they parted their land for
government projects. They are planning to agitate and they have support of
parties like Shiv Sena and Peasants and Workers Party. The government is
worried because this protest is just coming at a time when the state and
central elections are round the corner.
The airport project of Navi Mumbai is
touted as a mega infrastructure project to ease Mumbai's air traffic woes, but
it still remains mired in property disputes. The proposed new norms for land
acquisition will make it harder to buy the extra land due to the additional
cost. Another thing is that the changes to the 19th Century Land Acquistion Act
1894 are pending before Parliament.
Due to all these complications, the
residents of Navi Mumbai are wondering as to how long will it take to transform
this dream of constructing Navi Mumbai airport into reality.
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