Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has given approval to the second link taxiway in MIHAN, for which he agreed principally to provide assistance worth Rs 100 crore. This development has taken place during a meeting on Saturday convened by Fadnavis, highly placed sources said. This is another major development after Fadnavis asked MADC to hand over 786 hectare land to MIHAN India Limited, that runs Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport. It was the first meeting chaired by Devendra Fadnavis after becoming Chief Minister of Maharashtra, regarding airport development. According to sources, Vice Chairperson and Managing Director of Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) Swati Pandey had asked for 500-acre land of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at MIHAN to be used for commercial purpose related to aviation activities. Indamer Aviation Private Limited, Dassault and Air India MRO have taken full access to the current link.

 

These MROs can make use of this additional land. Fadnavis was of the view that State should support the project financially and accordingly, he promised to provide Rs 200 crore overall. This step is being taken to boost the MRO industry in consonance with new MRO policy of Government of India. Since MROs have taken space on the land that was already sold, the MADC can not create any aviation facility there. MADC will create all aviation facilities on 500-acre land. MADC has planned to create all types of infrastructure. It will boost Nagpur’s industry.

 

GMR Airports Limited is already constructing second runway. The partial portion of length 1,270 meter of second taxi track is already been constructed by MIL to provide connectivity to Air India MRO. The remaining portion of the length of 535 meter at North West side and 1,395 meter at South East side to make the full parallel taxi track of 3200 meter is proposed.