Vikrant panel to meet next week

According to S Nalinakshan, Principal Secretary, Urban Development, the meeting of the various agencies would set the project in motion.

Besides Nalinakshan, who heads the state government8217;s special committee on Vikrant, the meeting will include senior naval officials and Mumbai Port Trust MbPT DeputyChairman Rajiv Sinha.

8220;The EIA report will be submitted in around six months and the project will take around a year to be completed,8221; Nalinakshan said.

Tenders will be called for the consultancy which consists of two parts. The first part includes preparing the EIA report of the Jamshedji Bunder site and the second part will plan the actual grouting of the ship.

The Vikrant fast track project was put on hold by the state government for over a month and a half after two sites for berthing the ship had been cleared by the Mumbai Port Trust.

On July 14, the special committee of the MbPT cleared the Jamshedji Bunder and Oyster Rock sites for the Vikrant. The sites were cleared on the condition that the state government would undertake the Environment Impact Assessment EIA for the two sites.