UN agency to study viability of proposed GNoida airport

New Delhi: The Airports Authority of India is planning to soon appoint global aviation body ICAO to conduct an air traffic feasibility study of the proposed greenfield airport near Greater Noida.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a UN body, is likely to be given the mandate by AAI to conduct a viability and air traffic feasibility study of the proposed airport, an official source said.
The airport, also the dream project of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, is slated to be christened as the Taj International Aviation Hub and would come up on a 3,700 acre area at Jhevar near Greater Noida, located about 60 km from central Delhi and 120 km from Agra.
The source said AAI and ICAO have already held talks on the issue and the formalities would be cleared very soon. Besides studying feasibility, the ICAO uses its expertise to help airport operators around the world in upgrading airports, in their master planning and even financing of construction projects.
AAI's decision comes in the backdrop of the Group of Ministers on Jhevar airport finding major differences in air traffic projections given by the Uttar Pradesh government and the Delhi International Airports Limited that runs the IGI Airport.
Observing that "realistic figures" were needed to take a decision, the GoM, in its last meeting in August, had asked Civil Aviation Ministry to prepare a report on the projected passenger traffic at the proposed airport within the next three months, before its next meeting.
28/11/10 PTI/Economic Times

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