Mumbai: This is the story of how a 1994 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, Vennecaganti Radha, got cracking on the stuck deals in the Navi Mumbai International Airport project. Almost a month into the job, she has broken the deadlock and managed to convince villagers, who were once adamant about their land deals, to undertake a survey and initiate the process.
The airport project has been much awaited and more delayed due to various reasons — mainly over the issues of land acquisition and disagreement over compensation.
Radha, who had cracked the whip on Mumbai’s octroi agents when she was a joint municipal commissioner to curb malpractices, started it all at Navi Mumbai by taking mahila mandal meetings and solving problems at the grassroots level.
City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), the nodal agency for the airport project, was facing opposition from the villagers, who were not allowing the agency to conduct any sort of survey of the land. A few days ago, Radha was invited to the mahila mandal programme as a lady officer. Radha sensed an opportunity here and accepted the invitation without a second thought.
Read news in full 22/07/13 Sudhir Suryawanshi/Daily News & Analysis
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