'Navi Mumbai airport to be functional by...': Ajit Pawar shares update during Maharashtra Budget
Ajit Pawar announced that a new MSME policy is being prepared for the state. "Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, the government intends to give tap water connections to nearly 1.47 crore households. The government plans to provide 34,400 homes for Divyang people under the Housing for All Scheme," he said.
"The Maharashtra government is planning to build Maharashtra Bhavan in Ayodhya and Srinagar. To acquire land in these two places, ₹77 Crore is being proposed to be allocated. Freedom fighters' pension is being doubled from ₹10,000 per month to ₹20,000 per month.
The govt also proposes to make memorials of great personalities like Ahilyabai Holkar, Jyotiba Phule, Lahuji Salve and many others," he added. Earlier, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia had said commercial operations at the Navi Mumbai International Airport will commence by March 31, 2025. He said in January that 55-60 percent of the work on the project has been completed.
The Navi Mumbai Airport project is being developed by the Adani Group. It is split into five phases and will have a total capacity of handling 9 crore passengers per annum. The first two phases will have a capacity of handling 2 crore passengers per annum.
A press release cited the minister as saying that "the Navi Mumbai International Airport will be the first airport in the country with automated passenger movement within its 1600 hectares for ten kms on city side and on airside. "A 100 percent green airport is being created in the first phase...," he added. He added that the second runway, four terminals, along with an increased passenger capacity of 9 crore, will be created in phases three, four, and five.
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