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Slum-dwellers near Mumbai airport hold protest for rehabilitation

Around 3,000 people today staged a protest, asking the state and central governments to rehabilitate over four lakh slum dwellers from airport land at the earliest.

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Around 3,000 people today staged a protest, asking the state and central governments to rehabilitate over four lakh slum dwellers from airport land at the earliest.

The protesters, who gathered at the Azad Maidan in south Mumbai, said the proposed expansion of the Mumbai international airport is likely to displace over 80,000 families living in adjoining slums and they must be rehabilitated on Government land.

"We would wait for 15 days for the government to look into the matter. If the government fails to rehabilitate slum dwellers, we will not allow them to conduct survey work," Shiv Sena leader Vinayak Raut, who led the protest, said.

"The government should provide each family a house on their land either in Santacruz, Kurla or Andheri," Raut said.

In 2006, Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) unveiled the master plan of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), which has been designed to expand and upgrade the infrastructure to cater for 40 million passengers per year.

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