The state government has one good reason to pull the plug on the Navi Mumbai airport. Scrapping a project that has been in the pipeline for 15 years would work for the better in the long run as it will surely bring down realty rates in Navi Mumbai and hit the politician-developer nexus hard. “A handful of people are blackmailing the government by taking advantage of the decision to build an airport there. These are not poor farmers, but land sharks who have purchased land from farmers in cahoots with local politicians and are negotiating to make a killing for themselves,” said urban development expert Chandrashekhar Prabhu. “If the government scraps the airport,...
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