 "Cidco ropes in legal firm to vet RFQ for airport project")
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), nodal agency for the Navi Mumbai International Airport, has sent the request for qualification (RFQ) terms to a leading legal firm, Sahai Associates, for vetting. Cidco hopes to issue the RFQ by January-end.
The agency also indicated it would soon be able to take on board the villagers opposing the project. Cidco is currently carrying out surveys along with the project-affected villgers. The villagers had earlier rejected the state's rehabilitation package.
Further, CIDCO is also making efforts to bring on board PAVs from Pargaon and Ovla where the joint surveys are yet to begin. CIDCO's efforts to get PAVs on board has received a major boost after villagers failed to win the recently held gram panchayat polls on the issue of their opposition to the proposed international airport.
The joint surveys, which are currently underway in Dungi, Kohli and Upper Ovla, will cover present structure of the house of project affected person (PAP), its area, type of construction, member of the family, their education, profession and business, whether or not PAPs from the below poverty line, number of handicapped persons. Besides, PAPs will also give details with regard to the total income of the family and number of vehicles.
However, Mahendra Patel, sarpanch of Pargaon said villagers press for 35% developed land against 22.5% offered by the state government. ''A public meeting is organized on January 14 to further step up our demands and thereby oppose the airport project,'' he added.
RC Gharat, chief negotiator for PAPs down played the opposition from two villages. He informed that after the completion of joint surveys CIDCO will finalize the award and later allot the 22.5% developed land to PAPs.
PAPs would get 1 floor space index (FSI) for 12.5% developed land and 2.5% FSI for another 10% developed land. Besides, PAPs would get three times more land to the current residential plot which they have occupied.
The agency also indicated it would soon be able to take on board the villagers opposing the project. Cidco is currently carrying out surveys along with the project-affected villgers. The villagers had earlier rejected the state's rehabilitation package.
Further, CIDCO is also making efforts to bring on board PAVs from Pargaon and Ovla where the joint surveys are yet to begin. CIDCO's efforts to get PAVs on board has received a major boost after villagers failed to win the recently held gram panchayat polls on the issue of their opposition to the proposed international airport.
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CIDCO vice chairman and managing director Sanjay Bhatia told Business Standard on Friday ''We expect the Sahai Associates vets our RFQ within a fortnight and thereafter we will be able to issue it. We are quite optimistic that two villages will soon agree to the joint surveys and also to the rehabilitation package.''
The joint surveys, which are currently underway in Dungi, Kohli and Upper Ovla, will cover present structure of the house of project affected person (PAP), its area, type of construction, member of the family, their education, profession and business, whether or not PAPs from the below poverty line, number of handicapped persons. Besides, PAPs will also give details with regard to the total income of the family and number of vehicles.
However, Mahendra Patel, sarpanch of Pargaon said villagers press for 35% developed land against 22.5% offered by the state government. ''A public meeting is organized on January 14 to further step up our demands and thereby oppose the airport project,'' he added.
RC Gharat, chief negotiator for PAPs down played the opposition from two villages. He informed that after the completion of joint surveys CIDCO will finalize the award and later allot the 22.5% developed land to PAPs.
PAPs would get 1 floor space index (FSI) for 12.5% developed land and 2.5% FSI for another 10% developed land. Besides, PAPs would get three times more land to the current residential plot which they have occupied.