PM took another dig at Congress as he inaugurated the much-anticipated Navi Mumbai International Airport, apart from the Mumbai Metro Line 3, city's first underground metro corridor.
The fully operational airport, with 4 terminals, is expected to have a capacity to handle 90mn passengers annually, slightly more than the capacity of London's Heathrow airport.
The former MVA government agreed to change the names of Aurangabad, Osmanabad, and the Navi Mumbai airport. The decision turned out to be among the last the Uddhav cabinet made.
Navi Mumbai International Airport Ltd achieved a 'major milestone' two months ago, giving authorities confidence to complete much-delayed project by December 2024.
The airport's operator, controlled by the Adani Group, sold 7.25-year dollar notes to funds managed by Apollo in order to refinance existing debt and fund new capital expenditure.
Major projects such as Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link & underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro taking shape in city. With Covid hitting work, Mumbai has become jungle of concrete & iron.
MMRDA has identified 129 villages in the region & categorised them into 8 ‘growth centres’, wants to be special planning authority to ‘avoid haphazard development’
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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