Cidco is the project proponent of Navi Mumbai International Airport and it said that they had a meeting with the MoEFCC on June 28 and "made a detailed presentation with all required information about the project".
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) issued a clarification to dna's story: Maharashtra government fails to comply with green terms for Navi Mumbai airport.
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) had issued principal approval for the project in 2013 subject to 33 conditions and official documents showed that Maharashtra government did not fulfill few crucial conditions such as mutation of land for compensatory afforestation and ensuring that relocation of displaced persons does not take place on forest land.
Cidco is the project proponent of Navi Mumbai International Airport and it said that they had a meeting with the MoEFCC on June 28 and "made a detailed presentation with all required information about the project".
It has said that for compensatory afforestation, non-forest land has been identified and the land has been mutated and transferred in the name of the forest department. It added that all funds which were required to be transferred to CAMPA, have been paid. Regarding settlement of forest rights under the FRA, 2006, it said that district administration has certified the process.
However, questions still remain regarding fulfillment of a few other conditions mentioned in the project's principal clearance remain. In its clarification, Cidco has itself admitted that, as part of land identified for relocation of project affected persons, 22.5 hectares is forest area and that it will be seeking diversion of this forest land. This directly goes against the condition No. VXI mentioned in the 2013 principal approval which states: "State government shall ensure that settlement of displaced people does not take place in forest land".
Also, condition No. XIX stated that "in future, the user agency shall not submit any proposal for extension of the project or any other project or any other project ancillary/related to this project in the forest land between the present project site and Karnala Bird Sanctuary."
Cidco has clarified that incomplete information has been provided to Centre and that the proposal for final clearance will be considered on Tuesday. dna would like to mention that it had made multiple calls to Maharashtra government's principal secretary, forest Vikas Kharge to seek the forest department's version regarding the deficiencies in fulfilling principal clearance conditions, but did not get any response. Unfortunately, this fact inadvertently got left out from the story.
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