New Delhi: The Akhilesh Yadav government has finally "accepted" the Centre's proposal to build a second airport near Delhi, sources in the aviation ministry said today, hinting at next year's Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh as the likely prod.
The sources said the Samajwadi Party regime's nod for an airport in Jewar, 100km southeast of Delhi in the National Capital Region, came in a recent letter to civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju after more than a year of dawdling over the project.
They said the state, in its letter to Raju, had agreed to release for the airport around 2,500 acres acquired from farmers several years ago.
Junior aviation minister Mahesh Sharma, who had been rooting for the airport in Jewar - it is in Gautam Budh Nagar, his Lok Sabha constituency - confirmed the development.
"It's a matter of immense satisfaction for me that the Uttar Pradesh government has agreed to the airport project near Greater Noida," the minister told The Telegraph.
25/01/16 Sumi Sukanya/Telegraph
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The sources said the Samajwadi Party regime's nod for an airport in Jewar, 100km southeast of Delhi in the National Capital Region, came in a recent letter to civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju after more than a year of dawdling over the project.
They said the state, in its letter to Raju, had agreed to release for the airport around 2,500 acres acquired from farmers several years ago.
Junior aviation minister Mahesh Sharma, who had been rooting for the airport in Jewar - it is in Gautam Budh Nagar, his Lok Sabha constituency - confirmed the development.
"It's a matter of immense satisfaction for me that the Uttar Pradesh government has agreed to the airport project near Greater Noida," the minister told The Telegraph.
25/01/16 Sumi Sukanya/Telegraph
