It seems like Noida's wait for an international airport will continue. For the third time in two years, hopes for the proposed international airport in Jewar, a town on the outskirts of Noida, have been dashed. Earlier this year, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) had plans for developing a second airport in NCR, as the Indira Gandhi International Airport is expected to reach a saturation point in terms of capacity in the next five years.
Jewar was finalized as the site for the project. The Uttar Pradesh government had already indicated its willingness to build a domestic airport in Jewar as early as 2012. However, last week, the civil aviation ministry announced that the project will come up in Rajasthan's Bhiwadi instead, which is 92km and 80km away from Noida and Delhi respectively. Noida has already seen the dream of an international airport come to naught twice in the recent past.
In 2012, Jewar had been selected by the UP government as the location for a domestic and international airport, called the Taj International Airport. But the following year, the international airport was shifted to Firozabad. In June 2015, Mahesh Sharma, union minister of state for civil aviation, had said that a proposal for an airport in Greater Noida had been cleared, but this development was later refuted by the government. These developments have left Noidawallahs disappointed as their wait for an international airport in the city continues.
17/11/15 Abhimanyu Mathur/Economic Times
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Jewar was finalized as the site for the project. The Uttar Pradesh government had already indicated its willingness to build a domestic airport in Jewar as early as 2012. However, last week, the civil aviation ministry announced that the project will come up in Rajasthan's Bhiwadi instead, which is 92km and 80km away from Noida and Delhi respectively. Noida has already seen the dream of an international airport come to naught twice in the recent past.
In 2012, Jewar had been selected by the UP government as the location for a domestic and international airport, called the Taj International Airport. But the following year, the international airport was shifted to Firozabad. In June 2015, Mahesh Sharma, union minister of state for civil aviation, had said that a proposal for an airport in Greater Noida had been cleared, but this development was later refuted by the government. These developments have left Noidawallahs disappointed as their wait for an international airport in the city continues.
17/11/15 Abhimanyu Mathur/Economic Times
