Mumbai airport construction needs slum dwellers to be relocated
With the current proposals on slum rehabilitation around the Mumbai airport going nowhere, the civil aviation ministry is proposing a plan to relocate slum dwellers around the airport on the land to be freed, post the removal of slums.
According to the civil aviation ministry plan, which has the approval of civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapati Raju Pusapati, the slum dwellers will be relocated to about 150 of the 309 acres to be freed from slums estimated to be in habited by 90,000 families.
The plan is to build 15 floor buildings in about 150 acres of the freed land and shift all these dwellers into these flats. These 15 floor buildings will be built over areas that do not come in the funnel zone — area that falls in the landing and takeoff path of an aircraft — and would not be a safety hazard, said a senior aviation ministry official, who did not wish to be identified.
The relocation of the slum dwellers are necessary in order to go on with the proposed plan for the aircraft industry.
Source: The Economic Times
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