City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) plans to start pre-development works including relocation of power transmission lines and reclamation of site of land for the Navi Mumbai airport from January.
The pre-development works will commence upon completion of land acquisition later this month.
Pre development and will take over a year for completion and are estimated to cost over Rs 2,000 crore. According to CIDCO's planning the first phase of Rs 14,500 crore Navi Mumbai airport will ready from December 2018.
"We have split the pre development works in parts. Our officials are fine tuning the details with Indian Institute of Technology,'' a senior CIDCO official. Bids for the works will be issued next week, sources said.
Works include reclamation of marsh land, increasing height of land from 0-2 metres to 5 metres above mean sea level, flattening of hillocks, diversion of Ulwe river and relocation of power transmission lines.
The pre development works will be funded by CIDCO and the cost will be included in total airport project cost.
CIDCO is likely to opt for underground cable network in the airport area instead of merely relocating overhead transmission lines through alternate patch of land. This is being proposed as underground cabling will not require much land. A final decision is yet to be taken on the issue.
"Tata Power has got four lines of 220 KV / 110 KV passing through the area. We have given two options to CIDCO - either divert the lines away from the stipulated zone of the airport or convert them into underground cable system bypassing the airport zone. Tata Power would prefer the option of diversion since in that case, the lines can later be upgraded whenever required. However in the public interest, we will accept the option two of underground cable system,'' a Tata Power spokesperson said.
Mumbai's second airport project has been long delayed due to environment clearance issues and land acquisition problems.
But in a positive development last week Bombay High Court directed project affected persons to accept the compensation plan offered by the government by October 6.
CIDCO expects land acquisition process to be complete by October-end. Bidders too have to submit request for qualification (RFQ) documents by October 30.
About 671 hectares of private land is still to be acquired and officials are hopeful of completing the acquisition process by October end.
The project's total land requirement is 2,268 hectares. About 1160 hectares will be used for aeronautical purposes (construction of terminals, runway, taxiway etc).
The pre-development works will commence upon completion of land acquisition later this month.
Pre development and will take over a year for completion and are estimated to cost over Rs 2,000 crore. According to CIDCO's planning the first phase of Rs 14,500 crore Navi Mumbai airport will ready from December 2018.
"We have split the pre development works in parts. Our officials are fine tuning the details with Indian Institute of Technology,'' a senior CIDCO official. Bids for the works will be issued next week, sources said.
Works include reclamation of marsh land, increasing height of land from 0-2 metres to 5 metres above mean sea level, flattening of hillocks, diversion of Ulwe river and relocation of power transmission lines.
The pre development works will be funded by CIDCO and the cost will be included in total airport project cost.
CIDCO is likely to opt for underground cable network in the airport area instead of merely relocating overhead transmission lines through alternate patch of land. This is being proposed as underground cabling will not require much land. A final decision is yet to be taken on the issue.
"Tata Power has got four lines of 220 KV / 110 KV passing through the area. We have given two options to CIDCO - either divert the lines away from the stipulated zone of the airport or convert them into underground cable system bypassing the airport zone. Tata Power would prefer the option of diversion since in that case, the lines can later be upgraded whenever required. However in the public interest, we will accept the option two of underground cable system,'' a Tata Power spokesperson said.
Mumbai's second airport project has been long delayed due to environment clearance issues and land acquisition problems.
But in a positive development last week Bombay High Court directed project affected persons to accept the compensation plan offered by the government by October 6.
CIDCO expects land acquisition process to be complete by October-end. Bidders too have to submit request for qualification (RFQ) documents by October 30.
About 671 hectares of private land is still to be acquired and officials are hopeful of completing the acquisition process by October end.
The project's total land requirement is 2,268 hectares. About 1160 hectares will be used for aeronautical purposes (construction of terminals, runway, taxiway etc).
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