Clear 10,000 encroachers in 6 months: GVK

Mumbai: Clear over 12 per cent of the 80,000-odd encroachers on Airports Authority of India (AAI) land by year end. And relocate those displaced to transit camps, in six months.
This was what the GVK-ACSA consortium conveyed to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) Commissioner T Chandra Shekhar late on Thursday evening.
In charge of the Mumbai airport’s modernisation and upgradation, members of the consortium met officials of the MMRDA, the project-implementing authority, and handed over an initial development scheme on its airport reorganisation plans.
While the MMRDA will be responsible for resettling the project-affected people—the numbers are likely to be much higher than MMRDA estimates—architect Mukesh Mehta has been appointed to conduct the baseline socio-economic survey that will determine who’s eligible for rehabilitation.
Mehta, who was the brain behind the Dharavi redevelopment proposal, will be expected to complete the survey in three months.
12/05/06 Chitrangada Choudhury & Lekha Agarwal/Mumbai Newsline

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