CIDCO, the nodal agency of the Maharashtra government for the Navi Mumbai International Airport project, today held a meeting of 20 prospective bidders in the neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
The meeting followed publication of the global tender advertisement on February 5, inviting Request for Proposal from global firms to develop the airport on the Design, Build, Finance, Operate, Transfer (DBFOT) basis, CIDCO said in a release today. Various queries of prospective bidders were answered at the meeting.
"Answering a query concerning the airspace conflict in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region area, Vice-chairman and Managing Director of CIDCO Sanjay Bhatia said there will be no air- traffic constraints on the NMIA and the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (of Mumbai) and the Navi Mumbai airport could operate simultaneously and independently," the CIDCO release said.
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Representatives of Zurich Airport, Ferrovial Aeropuertos (SA), TATA Realty and Infrastructure, Mumbai International Airport Limited, SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, Samsung C&T, IL&FS, GMR Group, among others, were present at the meeting.
Bhatia told the participants that all the technical issues regarding environmental concerns have been resolved and statutory clearances have been acquired.
CIDCO Joint Managing Director V Radha informed that Rehabilitation and Resettlement package offered by CIDCO to the project-affected people is the best in India and is better than that required under the amended Land Acquisition Act.
The process of acquiring remaining 292 hectares of land will be completed shortly, she assured.
The prospective bidders were also told that the airport will have a good connectivity as CIDCO itself is developing the metro rail linking it with the city.
