The Proposed Airport to be constructed in Navi Mumbai will soon swallow the last bastion of Virgin mangroves alongside and sound a deathknell for a large number of marine species associated with it.
No amount of Pressure from the environmental ministry(headed By Jairam Ramesh)is bound to have any effect on Praful Patel the minister for Civil Avaition who is harping on development of the site for the ambitious project come what may.
The rich Bio-Diversity of the mangroves would be lost forever.Some rivers in the vicinity will be diverted which would bring in unprecedented floods in some other area.
It is said that the Present airport at Sahar can handle only about 40 million Passengers and the air traffic would double by the year 2031 and a new airport can is the only solution to reduce the pressure.
The Sahar Airport is surrounded by slums and the Govt should have evicted them long back which itself would have created generous amount of space needed for the growing Air traffic.
However the Govt is more wary of the ''Vote bank'' and hence avoiding this amicable & more logical solution.
It has been scientifically proved that the Mnagroves absorb a substantial part of the Carbon present in the air,prevent floods & the resulting soil erosion and is a ideal habitat for many marine species.
Developement is a must but at what Cost?
We are slowly but surely digging our own graves with borrowed shovels(World Bank Funds)and the future generation would have to bear the brunt of this lop sided development in the form of devastating Tsunamis and flash floods.
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