India, May 6 -- The Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced a special land acquisition package for the proposed Chhatrapati Sambhaji Raje International Airport project in Purandar. As per the package, landowners would receive Rs.1.61 crore compensation per acre of land, a 10 percent land holding in the nearby commercial and residential AeroCity, one job per family, compensation for existing horticulture crops, and other related facilities.

The district administration claimed this is one of the best land acquisition packages, valued at more than four times the existing land price.

Announcing the package, Pune district collector Jitendra Dudi said, "The Maharashtra government considers the Purandar Airport a special case and decided t...