Navi Mumbai Was Developed on the land acquired from local Agri villagers.During land aquisation CIDCO has not bothered about Human Rights.The locals where earning there living from farming and fishing.DIDCO acquired land from locals forcefully and alloted 12.5% plots to the locals.CIDCO did not made any arrangements for there living or did not give any kind of reservations in education for local Agri Community.After acquiring land and alloting plots CIDCO left locals on there own who were unable to Compete with Outside peoples who were more educated.CIDCO has acquired land in exchange of only 12.5% plots And sold rest to the builders at very very High cost.

Navi Mumbai is a new township built in Maharashtra. It is arguably, world's largest new city. Initially planned with a specific purpose: to decongest Mumbai and become an alternative heaven for the multitudes that throng Mumbai from different parts of India, today Navi Mumbai is a close competitor to Mumbai in every aspect.

The first post-independence development plan for Bombay, formulated by the Mayer-Modak Committee in 1948, suggested satellite towns to Mumbai (then Bombay). Ten years later in March 1958, the Study group on Greater Bombay set up under the chairmanship of Mr. S.G. Barve was set up. In February 1959 committee suggested the formation of a township on the mainland across the Thane Creek to decongest Bombay. One of its major recommendations was that a rail-cum-road bridge be built across the Thane Creek to connect peninsular Bombay with the mainland. The bridge accelerated development across the Creek, relieving pressure on the city's railways and roadways, and attracted industrial and residential concentrations eastward to the mainland.

Barve Group recommendations were accepted by Government of Maharashtra in July 1964. A new committee chaired by Prof. D.R. Gadgil, then Director of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune in March, 1965 was asked to form broad principles of regional planning. The Gadgil Committee strongly recommended of a new town across the harbour.

In March 1966 the Gadgil Committee recommended regional planning legislation and regional planning boards. In January 1967 Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act 1966 was passed. July 1967 saw the constitution of Bombay Metropolitan and Regional Planning Board under the chairmanship of an ICS officer L.G. Rajwade. The committee published the Draft Plan with recommendations to set up a new metro-centre or New Bombay now called Navi Mumbai across the creek. This proposal was accepted by the Bombay Municipal Corporation as the new twin city designed within the Bombay Metropolitan region to facilitate the decongestion of Bombay.

On 17 March 1970 under the Indian Companies Act, 1956 CIDCO was incorporated. Its sole purpose was to plan, develop and maintain the township of Navi Mumbai. Privately owned land covering 86 villages and measuring 15,954 hectares within the present limits of Navi Mumbai and further villages, measuring 2,870 hectares were acquired the Government of Maharashtra.

In 1973 the Vashi Bridge was opened to the public for residents of Vashi, Belapur and Nerul. Sion-Panvel highway was built to reduce the time taken to travel from Sion to Panvel. Initially the response to the new city was low, major changes took place only after 1990 with the commissioning of the wholesale agricultural produce market at Vashi and the construction of a commuter railway line from Mankhurd to Vashi in May 1992. These developments caused a sudden growth in economic activities and population in Navi Mumbai.

By the end of the 1990s, the planning authority of Navi Mumbai initiated private participation in the developmental activity of Navi Mumbai.

Some of the old and more populated nodes are Airoli, Vashi, Nerul and Belapur. Some of the more recent Node developments include Kharghar and New Panvel.

Recent developments include a 1.5 mile long Airoli Bridge over the Thane creek between Airoli and Mulund - an eastern suburb of Mumbai city.