| Navi Mumbai International Airport नवी मुंबई अंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ |
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| IATA: none – ICAO: none | |||
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| Location | Navi Mumbai, India | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 08L/26R | 12,139 | 3,700 | Asphalt |
| 08R/26L | 12,139 | 3,700 | Asphalt |
The proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport (Marathi: नवी मुंबई अंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ) is a new international airport, which is to come up at Kopra-Panvel area, is being built through public-private partnership (PPP) — with private sector partner getting 74% equity while Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Govt of Maharashtra (through City and Industrial Development Corporation or CIDCO) holding 13% each. Its first phase is planned to be operational by 2012.
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The sea - shore land required is about 11.4 km² for the core airport activity and will have two parallel runways each 3700 metres long. It is to be located on highway NH 4B near Panvel, about 35 km from the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has already given clearance to the Navi Mumbai airport on technical parameters. The Airport construction is at global tendering stage [1]
The cost of the project, which is being developed through the public-private partnership route, is estimated at between 3,200 crore (US$608 million) and 4,000 crore (US$760 million). The airport will have a terminal area of 250,000 m². and a cargo area of 100,000 m² and handle 50-55 million passengers annually.[2]
The site of airport is located in an area of 9.5 km² accommodating two parallel runways for simultaneous and segregated parallel operation with provision of full length taxi ways on either side of the runways. The airfield has been designed to accommodate the new large aircraft compatible to aerodrome code 4-F.
Approximately 1140 Hectares (Ha) has been marked for the development of the second International airport. Another 225 Ha of government land is being transferred to CIDCO and the remaining 295Ha is private land which is under acquisition.
The airport is facing hurdles in the acquisition of private land. It will need 2,042 hectares of land of which 1,405 hectare is already with the nodal agency, City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), 485 hectare is privately owned and 151 hectare is owned by the state government. CIDCO officials and the state government have been negotiating with the residents of seven villages, who will need to shift to acquire the 485-hectare private land. Land acquisition is stuck as the villagers (5,000 families) are demanding a higher compensation package. [3]
The official website states that the airport will handle 10 million passengers in its first operational year 2012, (previously the CIDCO website stated as 4.5 million passenger in its first operational year 2007) and land acquisitions have not been completed. Villagers and land holders at the planned site of the airport are unhappy with the compensation paid to them by CIDCO. The site also presents environmental problems in dealing with mangroves and rain/storm water drains in Panvel. There is an NGO fighting government agencies regarding Panvel.
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) gave its clearance for the 4,000 crore (US$760 million) Navi Mumbai international airport on 14 May 2008.[4] The environmental ministry finally cleared the project on 23 November 2010.[5]
The new airport, which is to come up at Kopra-Panvel area, is being built through PPP route, with private sector partner getting 74 per cent equity while Airports Authority of India and Govt of Maharashtra through City and Industrial Development Corporation holding 13%. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has already given techno-feasibility clearance to the proposed airport, which will be located on National Highway NH 4B near Panvel, about 35 km from the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai. The land required is about 11.4 km2 for the core airport activity and will have two parallel runways each 3,700 metres long.
Construction work is expected top start by December 2012.[6]
The total cost is expected to be 9,000 crore (US$1.71 billion).[7]
Objections were raised by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on the current proposed location of the Navi Mumbai International airport near Kopra Panvel area, apparently because the construction of the airport would involve reclamation of low-lying areas in an ecologically fragile zone as well as destruction of several hectares of Mangroves. There are serious environmental issues. Its construction would damage mangrove cultivation in the 2,000 hectares, besides the diversion of Gadhi and Ulwe rivers, which according to the Union Environment and Forests Ministry is a very serious issue considering the destruction Mumbai faced during the 26th July 2005 floods. As a result of these new developments other locations were considered.
The proposed airport site is centered around the region of Rewas and Mandwa near Alibaug, where the original proposal of second international airport existed on all regional development plans, and the location was commented to be the most fit and correct barring the excessive financial cost involved in building a sea-link/creek bridge over the Karanja Creek connecting Uran - JNPT area to the proposed airport at Rewas Mandwa. It is only at a distance of 20 nautical miles (37 km) by sea makes it an viable location.
The second option includes the one off village Newali near Kalyan-Ambernath 55 km away from the current airport in Mumbai. There exists an old and abandoned air-strip of World War II era and the Union Defence Ministry owns the 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of land on which it is located. The proposal was centered around those 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of land.
Both options were later ruled out and the site was finalised at Panvel.