MUMBAI: The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), the nodal agency for the Navi Mumbai airport
project, will initiate the 'request for qualification (RFQ)' process
next Wednesday upon which multinational developers are expected to
approach it to participate in the bidding. The RFQ issue was hanging
fire for over 18 months since an agreement had not been reached with the
PAPs.
The civil aviation ministry and the Prime Minister's office have cleared the tender documents, said Cidco vice-chairman and managing director Sanjay Bhatia. "The process will take a year's time. We have decided to go ahead with the RFQ process and simultaneously, negotiations are on with PAPs of six of the total 18 villages who are expected to give their consent for the land acquisition within a year's time."
However, Bhatia clarified that the final request for proposal (RFP) would be issued only after all the PAPs give their consent. Cidco is yet to acquire 260 hectares from these villages. Bhatia also clarified that the rehabilitation package cleared by the state government and PAPs won't be changed further as it is one of the best offered in the country.
Cidco chairman Pramod Hindurao said goundworks worth Rs 2,000 crore such as building civic amenities, diverting rivers, shifting power transmission network, creating lagoons and clearing and filling up of land were being given to locals.
Following the government's reworked offer, value of the land offered as compensation to the PAPs will go up to Rs 17 crore per hectare from the present Rs 20 lakh per hectare. Earlier, PAPs were set to get only 12.5% of the developed land, that too after 10-15 years. Also, as part of the rehab package, PAPs will get three times the footprint area of their existing house. They will also get the construction cost of the existing plot.
MAKING AIR SPACE FOR NAVI MUMBAI AIRPORT
According to experts, passenger traffic at Mumbai airport is growing at the rate of 10% annually and the airport is expected to reach full capacity of 40 million passengers per annum by 2015 under an unconstrained growth scenario.
Owing to capacity constraints, experts rule out further expansion at Mumbai airport. The second airport in Navi Mumbai is expected to handle 10 million passengers in the first phase and overall capacity will be 60 million. The Rs 14,000 crore project will have two runways.
The groundworks to divert rivers, shift electricity towers, bulldoze hillocks, create mangrove lagoons and fill up marshy land will cost Rs 4,000 crore. The remaining Rs 10,000 crore will be used to develop the airport.
The civil aviation ministry and the Prime Minister's office have cleared the tender documents, said Cidco vice-chairman and managing director Sanjay Bhatia. "The process will take a year's time. We have decided to go ahead with the RFQ process and simultaneously, negotiations are on with PAPs of six of the total 18 villages who are expected to give their consent for the land acquisition within a year's time."
However, Bhatia clarified that the final request for proposal (RFP) would be issued only after all the PAPs give their consent. Cidco is yet to acquire 260 hectares from these villages. Bhatia also clarified that the rehabilitation package cleared by the state government and PAPs won't be changed further as it is one of the best offered in the country.
Cidco chairman Pramod Hindurao said goundworks worth Rs 2,000 crore such as building civic amenities, diverting rivers, shifting power transmission network, creating lagoons and clearing and filling up of land were being given to locals.
Following the government's reworked offer, value of the land offered as compensation to the PAPs will go up to Rs 17 crore per hectare from the present Rs 20 lakh per hectare. Earlier, PAPs were set to get only 12.5% of the developed land, that too after 10-15 years. Also, as part of the rehab package, PAPs will get three times the footprint area of their existing house. They will also get the construction cost of the existing plot.
MAKING AIR SPACE FOR NAVI MUMBAI AIRPORT
According to experts, passenger traffic at Mumbai airport is growing at the rate of 10% annually and the airport is expected to reach full capacity of 40 million passengers per annum by 2015 under an unconstrained growth scenario.
Owing to capacity constraints, experts rule out further expansion at Mumbai airport. The second airport in Navi Mumbai is expected to handle 10 million passengers in the first phase and overall capacity will be 60 million. The Rs 14,000 crore project will have two runways.
The groundworks to divert rivers, shift electricity towers, bulldoze hillocks, create mangrove lagoons and fill up marshy land will cost Rs 4,000 crore. The remaining Rs 10,000 crore will be used to develop the airport.
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