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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 13:51:16 +0530
Is Mumbai Port Trust's (MPT) ambitious plan to set up a new offshore
container terminal by filling up the Victoria and Prince Docks doomed?
Prominent citizens, including naval experts and ex-bureaucrats, seem to
think so after procuring a detailed feasibility report on the proposed
terminal from MPT under the Right to Information Act.
The Mumbai Dockland Regeneration Forum under the chairmanship of former
state secretary D M Sukhtankar has opposed the project worth more than
Rs 1,000 crore on the grounds that increasing container cargo arrival
into Mumbai port will not only congest the city's roads, but will also
be an ecological disaster. The project has been awarded to Gammon India
on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis.
cont'd....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Is_Mumbai_port_plan_a_gold_mine/articleshow/3008587.cms