INDIA’S PM HAILS PROGRESS OVER MUMBAI AIRPORT EXPANSION
November 3rd, 2013
INDIA’S Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has claimed that the remaining administrative obstacles to building the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport have been cleared and the final go ahead should come on March 31. Having met the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state Prithviraj Chavan, Singh said compulsory land purchase agreements had now been struck. “With this, all decks have been cleared to move ahead,” said a note from the Prime Minister’s office. It stressed that the initial project had been approved in 2007 by the civil aviation ministry, and had ...
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