Jewar airport: Uttar Pradesh govt okays ₹894 crore for resettlement of displaced families

NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday approved a bid document for Jewar Airport and sanctioned ₹894 crore for the resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced families, an official statement said.

The land acquisition process for the Greenfield International Airport in Gautam Buddh Nagar, the second in Delhi-NCR and billed to be the biggest in the country, picked up pace in the last quarter of 2018, but the work halted in April due to restrictions clamped for the Lok Sabha elections.

“The council of ministers has approved a proposal related to the establishment of the Noida International Greenfield Airport in Jewar in Gautam Buddh Nagar. The cabinet has approved the bid document and the draft concession agreement which were presented to it by the Project Monitoring and Implementation Committee (PMIC),” a statement released by the state government’s Department of Information said.