Noida International Airport: Clearance for work at Jewar site
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laying the foundation stone for the Rs 30,000-crore Noida International Airport, to be the largest in Asia and the fourth largest in the world, decks have been cleared for the execution of the grand project, which will create two passenger terminals with a capacity to handle 70 million passengers, 186 aircraft stands and a multi-modal cargo hub with one-million-tonne capacity.
To be spread over more than 1,300 ha at Jewar village in Greater Noida, work on the airport will be undertaken in four phases. The first phase is scheduled to be completed by 2024, with one runway becoming operational. To be built at a cost of Rs 5,730 crore, the first phase would cater to 12 million passengers per annum till FY2027. Phase II of the project would entail a cost of Rs 5,983 crore and would cater to an additional 18 million passengers per annum by FY2031-32, while Phase III of the project would cater to another 20 million passengers by FY2036-37, costing Rs 8,415 crore. Phase IV of the project, to cost Rs 10,575 crore, would be completed during FY2040-50, by which time the airport would be catering to 70 million passengers in all.
