About Navi Mumbai

History The growth of Mumbai city is constrained by sea at south, east and west. As a result total land area available for development of Mumbai is limited. Hence, developmental planners, in late 1960s started exploiting alternative for dispersal and control of Mumbai population. Eminent architects, Charles Correa, Shirish Patel and Pravin Mehta suggested Navi Mumbai as alternative to Mumbai.


Navi Mumbai has been developed as a planned city, a counter magnet for Mumbai. It has been developed as an independent, fully self-contained metro city. Navi Mumbai is the world's large, totally planned, well-balanced, modern city. Navi Mumbai has been planned and developed by CIDCO to meet the infrastructural needs of a modern metropolis.

City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is a State Public Sector Undertaking registered under Companies Act in March 1970. CIDCO prepared developmental plan for Navi Mumbai covering 95 villages from Thane and Raigad district covering total area of 343.70 sq km (table below). This was approved by the Government of Maharashtra in August 1979.

Proposed Land-use Pattern in Navi Mumbai as Per CIDCO Plan

Sr.No          Description                                                                                                Area

   1             Low lying area unsuitable for development                                       34.20

  2              MIDC Industrial Area                                                                               28.10

 3               Defense area at Uran                                                                               4.56

4                Port at Nhava Sheva                                                                                 12.00

5               Regional Parks                                                                                          72.25

6               Sewage Farming                                                                                         9.00

7              Fisheries                                                                                                      9.00

8             Net Area Available for Urban Development                                       174.59

Total                                                                                                                            343.70                                 


Source : Development Plan for Navi Mumbai, CIDCO

 

Navi Mumbai has been developed as an environment friendly, beautifully landscaped area with parks, gardens and promenades along waterfronts. Care has been taken to preserve the mountainous terrain, lakes and green spaces in Navi Mumbai, which cover nearly half of its total area.


For catering to the requirements of 29 villages in CIDCO project and 14 villages from Kalyan notified area NMMC was formed vide Government order dated December 17, 1991. NMMC came in to existence on January 1, 1992. Total area under NMMC is 162.5 sq km.


In the CIDCO area there are seven nodes viz. CBD Belapur, Vashi, Nerul, Koparkhairane, Ghansoli, Sanpada and Airoli. Except for Ghansoli node, other six nodes are fully developed and hence, all powers under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act 1966 have been transferred to NMMC.


14 villages from Kalyan notified are deleted from NMMC jurisdiction vide Government order NMC 102000/LNO 54/04/NV 28 dated June 8, 2007.


Kopar Khairane

Kopar Khairane is a node of the city of Navi Mumbai . It was built mostly on reclaimed land by CIDCO. Three engineering degree colleges (LTCOE, ACPE (now shifted to Kharghar), Smt. Indira Gandhi College of Engineering) and one engineering diploma college are located in Koparkhairane. It is adequately connected by bus to Mumbai and other Navi Mumbai nodes.

Koparkhairane is the fourth railway station on the Thane-Turbhe-Nerul/Vashi Railway Line which was commissioned on 9 November 2004.It is situated at a distance of 12 km from Thane railway station and 7 km from Vashi railway station.

The railway station is located in Sector 8A of the node. It is accessible from both the Thane-Belapur Road on the eastern side and the Kopar Khairane node on the western side. On the Thane-Belapur Road side of the station is located the enormous Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge Center City (DAKC), the headquarters of Reliance Communications - the largest CDMA telecom operator in India .

Also located closely is Millennium Business Park (MBP) which houses software consulting companies such as Patni Computer Systems, Mastek Ltd, L&T InfoTech, L&T Control & Automation Unit, 3Di Systems, Hexaware, Object Edge India etc.

As of 2008, there were 17 services a day on this rail line in either direction. They are proposed to be expanded in future. Currently (since JAN 2009) there are 45 services on either side from Vashi and Thane. It takes less than twenty minutes to reach Thane. And also 16 services on either side from Nerul and Thane started since JAN 2009. It takes hardly 15 minutes to reach Nerul. Also (since JAN 2009) 2 services on either side from Panvel and Thane have started it just takes Thirty Eight minutes to reach Panvel.

There is an upcoming demand for a new bridge over the Thane creek from Koparkhairane to Kannamwar Nagar in Vikhroli, Mumbai off the eastern express highway so as to connect the eastern suburbs of Mumbai. This will establish a much desired third bridge linking Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.

As in the rest of Navi Mumbai, the real estate prices in Koparkhairane have sky rocketed. One factor that has ostensibly led to this is the announcement by Reliance Industries that it is going to build the biggest corporate house in the world here. This corporate house would be located in the huge tract of land in Koperkhairane and Ghansoli

The current rates as on 1 July 2009 range between Rs.4000 to 5000 per square feet for residential properties.