1,800 acres of defence ministry land due to safety and security reasons because a R&D laboratory of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) was being constructed in the adjacent area. The proposal was also opposed by farmers in the Kalyan-Ambarnath belt who contended that the project would require more land than what was available with AAI, thus affecting around 22,000 farmers from 18 villages in the vicinity of the site. The state government dropped the idea of examining alternative sites in February 2014 as it had secured all necessary approvals for the Panvel site. Location The site is located on Haji Malang Road at Nevali village, 6 km south of Kalyan railway station and 55 km away from the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport at Sahar in Mumbai. It lies close to urban areas of the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation. The nearest railway station is Kalyan railway station on the Central Railway of the Mumbai suburban railway network. The site can also be accessed from State Highway 2 (Kalyan-Murbad-Ahmednagar highway) and the NH 160 (Nashik-Thane national highway) which was earlier numbered NH 3 before renumbering of all national highways by National Highway Authority of India in 2010 year. References External links Maha govt seeks approval for another airport this one in Kalyan 2nd Airport for Mumbai and how not to build it by Dorab Sopariwala Airports in Maharashtra Airports in Mumbai World War II sites in India Defunct airports in India Kalyan-Dombivli 1920s establishments in India Airports established in the 1920s 20th-century architecture in India