Noida: The location of a new international airport in Uttar Pradesh appears to have become the latest subject of political feud between the Centre and the state government.
Sanjeev Saran, the principal secretary (industries) of the UP government, said on Thursday the ministry of defence (MoD) had refused to issue a no-objection certificate for an international airport the Samajwadi Party government wants to build in Agra.
The BJP wants the airport to come up at Jewar in Greater Noida, a project proposed in 2001 when Rajnath Singh, now Union home minister, was Uttar Pradesh CM. The party brought the Jewar project back in circulation earlier this week when Mahesh Sharma, the Gautam Budh Nagar MP who has been appointed minister of state (civil aviation), said he wants to revive it.
The Samajwadi government, however, is rooting for Agra, where CM Akhilesh Yadav wants the airport to come up, and had scrapped the Jewar project before Sharma revived it. "The chief minister has written to the PM, seeking his intervention for a clearance for the airport," Saran said.
14/11/4 Purusharth Aradhak/Times of India
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Sanjeev Saran, the principal secretary (industries) of the UP government, said on Thursday the ministry of defence (MoD) had refused to issue a no-objection certificate for an international airport the Samajwadi Party government wants to build in Agra.
The BJP wants the airport to come up at Jewar in Greater Noida, a project proposed in 2001 when Rajnath Singh, now Union home minister, was Uttar Pradesh CM. The party brought the Jewar project back in circulation earlier this week when Mahesh Sharma, the Gautam Budh Nagar MP who has been appointed minister of state (civil aviation), said he wants to revive it.
The Samajwadi government, however, is rooting for Agra, where CM Akhilesh Yadav wants the airport to come up, and had scrapped the Jewar project before Sharma revived it. "The chief minister has written to the PM, seeking his intervention for a clearance for the airport," Saran said.
14/11/4 Purusharth Aradhak/Times of India
