MAXIMUM CITY MINIMUM AIRPORT P A R T 2 Aviation's SOS to PM: Save the Navi
Mumbai airport
PRANAB DHAL SAMANTA & SMITA AGGARWAL
NEW DELHI

Jairam floats Kalyan as a venue, ex-NSA shot it down citing `sensitive' BARC lab
THECivilAviationMinistrytoday sought the intervention of the PMO to PMO to maketheEnvironment Ministry see reason over the need for a second airportinMumbai.

No plan to acquire lands in residential areas or farm lands

Says decision on project taken at all-party meeting

Sukhdeep Kaur

As many parts of the country see protests over land acquisition for projects, Punjab is sticking to its theory that what counts is the size of the compensation. Setting new benchmarks in land prices, the state government has been offering a much higher compensation than even the prevailing market value in all recent land acquisitions.

The bitter turf war within the government over the proposed
international airport in Navi Mumbai seems to have entered its final stage now
with the expert committee of the Environment Ministry scheduled to hold a
three-day meeting from August 18-20 to decide on its fate.

Ranchi, July 27: A day after a suspected bird-hit grounded a Mumbai-bound Kingfisher Airlines flight at Ranchi