Pune: Close to seven years after controversy erupted over the allocation of land in Chakan for the Pune International Airport — with local farmers protesting the move leading to the state government exploring an alternative location in Khed, 74 per cent of which is under the ownership of the Kalyani Group — it appears that the situation may be headed back to square one.
Dr P S Meena, additional chief secretary of the state government administration department, has revealed to Mirror that the government is in the process of rethinking the location for the state-of-the-art facility, due to the business group showing unwillingness to part with the requisitioned land.
The rest of the 26 per cent of the Khed land in question is under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC).
Naturally then, the plan is to move back to earlier identified sites — the Shiroli-Chandus or Pait-Koye land parcels around 20 kilometres from the Chakan industrial belt, or a swathe of five villages around the area — in all of which farmers had professed a similar unwillingness to part with their agricultural land.
04/02/15 Pune Mirror
Dr P S Meena, additional chief secretary of the state government administration department, has revealed to Mirror that the government is in the process of rethinking the location for the state-of-the-art facility, due to the business group showing unwillingness to part with the requisitioned land.
The rest of the 26 per cent of the Khed land in question is under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC).
Naturally then, the plan is to move back to earlier identified sites — the Shiroli-Chandus or Pait-Koye land parcels around 20 kilometres from the Chakan industrial belt, or a swathe of five villages around the area — in all of which farmers had professed a similar unwillingness to part with their agricultural land.
04/02/15 Pune Mirror
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