Terming the inauguration of Navi Mumbai International Airport a “dream come true” for Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that the project which was conceptualised in the 1990s was expedited after a single meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The NMIA was conceptualised way back in the 1990s. But there was just a board with no signs of a project during the Congress regime. But when I became the CM ( in 2014), we sought clearances from the Centre which were pending for several decades. In a single meeting PM Narendra Modi resolved all the issues paving way forward for the project,” Fadnavis said.

The chief minister said that the government is now focussed on the country’s first offshore international airport along with the Rs 76,000-crore Wadhwan port

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