City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO) will set up an Aviation Academy for the training of manpower required for the proposed Navi Mumbai International airport. The work of the proposed airport is likely to begin next year and the first phase has been scheduled to be completed in 2019.
The Navi Mumbai airport project, for which CIDCO is the nodal agency, is in its final stages of getting approvals and all pending permissions and clearances will be in hand soon, she said, adding, post which agency (to develop and operate the airport) will be finalised. The stage I forest clearance and wild life clearance have been obtained and Stage II clearance is in progress.
Once operations start, the airport will give jobs to more than a lakh people and to cater to this need, CIDCO is, in advance starting an Aviation Academy which will train the required man power. As per the current estimates, major passenger influx of 16 per cent to the airport is likely to come from Kalyan and Bhiwandi, eight per cent from Thane.