She completed two months as the joint managing director of CIDCO on July 22 and probably took up the most daunting task of her career: wining over trust of the Project Affected People (PAP) in Navi Mumbai, whose lands would be acquired for the ambitious Navi Mumbai International Airport project. Richa Pinto spoke to IAS officer V Radha to understand her experience of interacting with the PAP and her efforts in building confidence between them and CIDCO. Radha was also asked point-blank whether the airport project would ever see the light of the day and this is what she had to say:

A glimmer of hope: V Radha interacts with the villagers of Pargaon, where she was invited by the local mahila mandal to attend a function