New Airport At Navi Mumbai Closer To Reality

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 8, August 2010

The main objection of the Environment Ministry to the Navi Mumbai site was that two rivers will have to be diverted and a hill blasted, and about 400 acres of mangroves destroyed.

The project may still come up at Navi Mumbai, though, without impacting the rivers, following the reported give-and-take at the meeting between the two Central Ministers, Mr Praful Patel and Mr Jairam Ramesh. Read the full report here.

Source: The Hindu Business Line, New Delhi/Mumbai.

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