New Delhi: An airport at Greater Noida’s Jewar, on the southeastern fringes of India’s capital, was first suggested 16 years ago: The wait will get longer after the local government said it even lacks funds to finance a crucial study on the project.
The government in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state that is now in the process of electing its local legislature, cited lack of money to conduct an 'obstacle study' at the proposed airport site. "An obstacle study would not cost more than few lakhs and it is difficult to believe that the state government does not have that kind of money," a senior official at the Airports Authority of India told ET.
The state government last month wrote to the federal aviation ministry about its inability to conduct the study that ascertains whether the proposed site has any obstacle to cause obstructions in flight movements. The decision to conduct the study at the proposed site was taken in July during the last aviation ministry meeting on the Jewar airport.
24/02/17 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
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The government in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state that is now in the process of electing its local legislature, cited lack of money to conduct an 'obstacle study' at the proposed airport site. "An obstacle study would not cost more than few lakhs and it is difficult to believe that the state government does not have that kind of money," a senior official at the Airports Authority of India told ET.
The state government last month wrote to the federal aviation ministry about its inability to conduct the study that ascertains whether the proposed site has any obstacle to cause obstructions in flight movements. The decision to conduct the study at the proposed site was taken in July during the last aviation ministry meeting on the Jewar airport.
24/02/17 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
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