PM evince personal interest for new airport

When the criteria for early settlement of long pending before the Navi Mumbai airport project, said Prime Minister on Friday to investigate the matter resolves the problem quickly.

He assured the Prime Minister of Maharashtra Congress delegation led by Prime Minister Ashok Chavan and contains a number of senior executives, including revenue minister Narayan Rane.

"I personally investigate the matter. Mumbai is very important for the country. I know that the new airport is a necessity. There is nothing developing in Mumbai," Singh told the delegation, according to Chavan.

Prime Minister said that the delegation of the Prime Minister stressed that the rapid development of a second airport in Mumbai was the need for hours of business organization and the largest expansion of the existing airport is not enough.

Chavan said the Mumbai airport, currently handling 26 million passengers each year and the flow of traffic is to add 45 million to 119 million passengers in 2014-15 and 2031-1932.

Dodge the question whether the approach to the environment minister Jairam Ramesh had been posing as a problem of Maharashtra, said he had three meetings with the minister and the government was willing to do what is necessary to protect the environment, but go ahead with the project.

Chavan and Rane rejected the request of the Shiv Sena that the Congress the urgency of Navi Mumbai airport when some party leaders have taken the land adjacent to the proposed project.

"There is no private land near the project," said the chief minister.

Manikrao Thakra PCC President was Minister of State for Environment Patangrao Kadam, Mumbai leader Kripa Shankar Singh Unit and a Congress party spokesman Maharashtra Kanhaiyalal Gidwani of the delegation.