The process of global tendering for designing and constructing the Navi Mumbai airport will start on February 5 even as preliminary work to rehabilitate villagers has begun near the site.
Although the selection of adeveloper and the commencement of construction work will take a year, clearing and filling up land, laying roads, sewage, and water pipes and putting up streetlights has begun in Pushpak Nagar along Ghadi river, where the projected-affected persons will be rehabilitated with 22.5% land, extra FSI and funding for their houses.
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.
•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
Although the selection of adeveloper and the commencement of construction work will take a year, clearing and filling up land, laying roads, sewage, and water pipes and putting up streetlights has begun in Pushpak Nagar along Ghadi river, where the projected-affected persons will be rehabilitated with 22.5% land, extra FSI and funding for their houses.
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.
•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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