Jewar Airport:
The Jewar airport will soon be a fact as the aviation ministry grants in-principle approval for the development. The Greenfield airport near Greater Noida will be developed to provide to the increasing flying demands of the national capital region. An area of 3,000 hectares has been suggested for the airport and is expected to attract Rs 20,000 crore as investments.
In the meanwhile, the Gautam Budha Nagar administration is working on providing compensation in villages where land has been taken for the Airport project. As much as 200 landowners of three villages namely Ranhera, Parohi, and Banwariwas have already been given compensation, while farmers in Dayanatpur, Rohi, and Kishorpur are in the process of getting the money.
As the Lok Sabha Elections is over, the permission from the state government on the Jewar concessionaire bid document is expected to come by next month in the parliament session.
Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) is very positive that govt will likely to give its approval following a proposal from the project monitoring and implementation committee. After receiving the necessary approval from the govt, the process of advertising global tenders for the construction of the airport will start.
We all aware that the bid document received the final approval from the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation in February 2019. It is expected that the airport will get ready by 2023. Once operational, the Jewar Airport aims to take the burden of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority is waiting for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) revised plans for the Airport Express Line as well as the commercial connectivity line to Jewar. Earlier in this month, YEIDA had their 2nd meeting with DMRC in which they had asked for a new separate dedicated airport line for Jewar which will run parallel to the current proposed 35.64-km commercial line by DMRC. It is expected that this line will have a total of 25 stations.
DMRC had given a presentation to YEIDA on the phase-1 of the commercial corridor, which will connect Knowledge Park 2 in Greater Noida with the Jewar Airport.