Airport Planners Wiser After Tsunami

Earlier, it was supposed to be at 6.5-7m, but now, the height will be raised by dumping more debris from the hills that will be flattened. The officials are also glad that the Jairam Ramesh-led environment department had forced them to draft the plan in such a way that the nearby Waghivali island in the Panvel creek and river Gadhi were kept out of the airport map. "If a major quake does happen, water from the river and the creek would have swept the airport away," an official said. Read the full report here.

Source: Chittaranjan Tembhekar, TNN, Mumbai.