Mumbai airport: slum rehabilitation to be on cluster basis
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Mumbai airport: slum rehabilitation to be on cluster basis

To make available the land currently occupied by slums and thereby ease the operations of Mumbai airport, the slum redevelopment will be conducted at the same place on the cluster development model. This will become a part of the land freed, which will be transferred to the airport.

This was announced Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who holds the housing portfolio, in a debate in the state assembly on the presently deteriorating conditions of infrastructure in Mumbai and slow pace of slum redevelopment and rehabilitation.

Fadnavis did not elaborate on which slums will be redeveloped first and how much vacated land can be transferred to the Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) which operates the airport. However, a senior housing department official told a newspaper, “The government, after talks with MIAL and the Airport Authority of India, will decide which slums are to be taken up first for redevelopment. By and large, the slums are situated in the aeronautical zone, on land which is meant for construction of a rehabilitation portion and on land identified for commercial exploitation by the airport operator.

However, slums outside these three categories may not be considered for cluster development as of now.”

He added that the rehabilitation of slum-dwellers will free 200 acres for aeronautical and commercial development.

See also:
New airport proposed for Thiruvananthapuram
Land acquisition for Jewar airport complete

To make available the land currently occupied by slums and thereby ease the operations of Mumbai airport, the slum redevelopment will be conducted at the same place on the cluster development model. This will become a part of the land freed, which will be transferred to the airport. This was announced Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who holds the housing portfolio, in a debate in the state assembly on the presently deteriorating conditions of infrastructure in Mumbai and slow pace of slum redevelopment and rehabilitation. Fadnavis did not elaborate on which slums will be redeveloped first and how much vacated land can be transferred to the Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) which operates the airport. However, a senior housing department official told a newspaper, “The government, after talks with MIAL and the Airport Authority of India, will decide which slums are to be taken up first for redevelopment. By and large, the slums are situated in the aeronautical zone, on land which is meant for construction of a rehabilitation portion and on land identified for commercial exploitation by the airport operator. However, slums outside these three categories may not be considered for cluster development as of now.” He added that the rehabilitation of slum-dwellers will free 200 acres for aeronautical and commercial development. See also: New airport proposed for ThiruvananthapuramLand acquisition for Jewar airport complete

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