With Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone of the Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, on Thursday, Uttar Pradesh has become the only state in India to have five international airports.
The first phase of the development of the airport is being done at a cost of over Rs 10,050 crore.
Here are a few other facts, you need to know about the new airport:
- Located at a distance of about 72 km from the IGI airport in New Delhi, the new airport will be India’s largest after its completion.
- Spread over more than 1,300 hectares of land, the airport will be the second international airport to come up in Delhi-NCR.
- The airport, whose first phase of airport is scheduled to be completed by 2024, will have the capacity to serve around 1.2 crore passengers a year.
- It will also be India’s first net-zero emissions airport. According to officials, land has been earmarked to be developed as a forest park using trees from the project site.
- Expected to serve around 1.2 crore passengers per year, the airport will bring 1 lakh jobs.
On Tuesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came to the Jewar site to review preparations, ahead of PM Modi’s visit for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the airport.
The CM said the state is working on airports in areas where people could not have “imagined” earlier.
