Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: Is the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance SEZ more important to the Maharashtra government than mangrove conservation?

Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has suggested that if the State government and the Union Civil Aviation Ministry want Mumbai's second airport to come up at the proposed site in Navi Mumbai, they should use some of the land allotted to the Specia

The state government is under pressure from the Centre to stay the release of 2,177 hectares of saltpan land in Mumbai for redevelopment, fearing it would lead to trouble in the flood-prone city.

The state government had planned to give this land to private developers for slum rehabilitation projects in lieu of incentives.

Sources in the ministry of urban development told DNA,

The Environment Ministry has assured the Prime Minister it will help find an early resolution to the deadlock over the Navi Mumbai airport project but has also requested the Maharashtra
government and the Civil Aviation Ministry to be more flexible.

The assurance has come in response to a communication from the Prime Minister's Office asking the Environment Ministry to expedite a decision on

Amitabh Sinha

New Delhi: With the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) stepping in again, it is now becoming increasingly clear that the second airport for Mumbai will, in all probability, be built at the proposed location in Navi Mumbai that is facing a host of environmental objections.

Environmental fundamentalism is proving a major hurdle to economic development in India
A V Rajwade / New Delhi September 06, 2010, 0:39 IST

Continuing the last week

PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Maharashtra government to do its bit for the expansion of the existing domestic terminal, while assuring chief minister Ashok Chavan of progress on the Navi Mumbai airport project.

A top Mantralaya official and aviation ministry officials told ET that the prime minister also sought to know the progress on rehabilitation of slums that smother Chhat

CM Ashok Chavan has asked the BMC to acquire the patch of land outside the Mumbai airport, just ahead of VIP gate number 8, for better upkeep of the stretch. He made those remarks to additional municipal commissioner Aseem Gupta while travelling with him from the city airport to his home.

The State Government has asked the district administration to identify 70 acre of levelled, private land for establishing mini airport in Kodagu district.

The order comes in wake of rejection of four to five government land shown to Airport Authority of India to establish the proposed airport.

Vinaya Deshpande and Rahi Gaikwad

Mumbai: Officials from the Civil Aviation Ministry and the Maharashtra government visited the proposed international airport site at Navi Mumbai on Thursday.

THE onus of providing lan for developing the land f reenfield air port at gr Sriperumbudur is on the Sr State Government, said S Airports Authority of A e India (AAI) Chairman V In Agrawal here on Thurs PA day.

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Hence, the new airport's prospects were bright.

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