Farmers at the recent meeting
PUNE: Landowners in the six new villages, covering 2,800 hectares, in Purandar tehsil where the district administration has planned the Pune airport project have held a series of meetings over the last few days to strongly oppose any attempt to take away their land for the project.
This situation does not augur well for the project considering that the administration has had to deal with a four-year protest by landowners at the earlier site covering seven villages of Pargaon, Udachiwadi, Munjwadi, Ekhatpuri, Khanauri,Vanpuri and Kumbharvan.
The new site now covers the six villages of Mavadi, Pimpri, Rajuri, Naygaon, Rise-Pise and Pandeshwar.