Uttar Pradesh for international airport in Greater Noida only

Lucknow: A delegation of MPs from Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) met Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel in New Delhi Tuesday to press the state’s demand for building a new international airport in Greater Noida, officials said here.
“A delegation of MPs gave a memorandum to the union civil aviation minister today in New Delhi, urging him to give due consideration to the state government’s proposal for creating an international airport at Jewar, where we have already identified sufficient land for the purpose,” state Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh told IANS.
The MPs were stated to have impressed upon Patel that the proposed international airport could be the best alternative to the New Delhi airport, which was “completely saturated”, he added.
Meanwhile, Singh refuted a report appearing in a section of the media about the state’s decision to shift the site of the proposed international airport from Jewar to Meerut.
“What we propose to do in Meerut was expansion of the existing airstrip there into a full fledged domestic airport to cater to the increasing demand of the local population,” Singh sought to clarify.
23/02/10 IANS/Thaindian.com, Thailand

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