The Maharashtra government on Wednesday approved Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (AAHL) to operate the upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport in the adjoining Thane-Raigad region, an official informed.
The state Cabinet, in its weekly meeting on Wednesday, presided over by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray gave its green signal to AAHL as the new concessionaire to the prestigious Greenfield Airport coming up as a public-private partnership project.
Earlier, the airport was to be developed and operated by GVK which was running the Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), but last year it was taken over by AAHL, and the same was approved by the Directorate of Civil Aviation, Airports Authority of India, SEBI, CCI and finally the CIDCO, which is overseeing the mega-project.
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is the nodal agency for NMIA coming up at Ulwe Kopar-Panvel in the Raigad district.
