80,000 families hamper smooth take-off

Mumbai: The GVK-ACSA consortium entrusted with the responsibility of modernising Mumbai’s domestic and international airports has requested the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to relocate about 10,000 encroachments on the Airport Authority of India (AAI) land to transit camps by year-end.
Eighty thousand families have so far been identified as encroachers.
At a meeting held recently with the MMRDA, the project implementation authority for the modernisation plan, the consortium handed over the initial airport development scheme. The scheme has suggested changes to the resettlement plans submitted by the MMRDA to the Civil Aviation Ministry.
Interestingly, encroachers will be resettled as per the state government’s new cut-off date of January 1, 2000, even though the Bombay High Court had ordered against changing the existing January 1, 1995.
15/05/06 Daily News & Analysis

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