The Maharashtra Government on Wednesday announced that it would complete the construction of the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) by 2019.
“Navi Mumbai International Airport has received excellent response in the qualifying round of Global tenders. It is targetted that the first flight will take off from this new airport in 2019,” Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao said, while addressing a joint gathering of both the Houses of Maharashtra legislature. “The Government has entrusted the responsibility to CIDCO for the development of a Smart City NAINA that consists of 30 towns around Navi Mumbai International Airport, which will focus on work areas relating to education, medical, entertainment, logistic, commerce, science, industry, etc. The State Government has notified 600 Sq. Km area for this purpose,” he said.
The Governor also spoke about the CIDCO’s plans to invest Rs35,000 crore for developing South Navi Mumbai as a Brownfield Smart city covering 7 towns with total area of about 7700 hectares. “Affordable housing, metro corridors, economic and infrastructure development projects along with Port city Development will be the main focus of this project, which will be completed in the next 4 years,” he said.