GR meets demands of PAP over Navi Mumbai airport land

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has come up with a government resolution (GR) about the compensation plan for project-affected people (PAP) of the Navi Mumbai airport project, which meets demands that have been made by PAP. This GR clears ways for compensation for per residence or building. The PAP had been demanding that the compensation plan be altered. As per the new GR, now if a husband and wife have two homes then both will get compensation for their properties. The GR also made homes or buildings built till 2014 eligible for the compensation. 

With this GR, the state government has given the CIDCO (City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra) chairman authority to take decisions about compensation in case of future. 

The Navi Mumbai Airport is one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has been following up on the project personally. The Mr Fadnavis-led state government has come up with new GR dates on September 22 regarding the project. 

The first point of the GR addressed the key issue of PAP. According to the new GR, now if a husband and wife have independent properties in their name then they are entitled to have compensation of the project. Also, property under 40 square metres is entitled to get transferred development rights. Not just that, the new GR also confirms that, residence outside Gavthan properties will get benefits of compensations like Gavthan even though they are not accommodated into the survey of September 19, 2014.