An international airport with a capacity to handle 30-50 million passengers per year will come up at Jewar in Greater Noida in the next five to six years to ease the load on the Delhi airport, the government announced today. The new facility will be the second international airport to serve the catchment areas of the National Capital Region (NCR).

In-principle clearance has been granted” by the central government for the construction of greenfield airport at Jewar located in Gautam Budh Nagar district, adjoining the national capital city of New Delhi, said civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju at a press briefing in New Delhi.

The announcement of a second airport at Jewar – Noida International Airport comes at a time when the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi grapples with an ever- increasing number of passengers.

It is expected that IGIA’s passenger handling capacity will reach up to 91 MPPA (million passengers per annum) by 2020 and 109 MPPA by 2024 from the current level of 62 million.

The Noida International Airport in Uttar Pradesh will be located 72 km from IGIA and 65 km from Hindon Air Force station in Ghaziabad.

Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said that the new state government in Uttar Pradesh has asked for a fresh technical evaluation for setting up a green field airport at Jewar. A technical evaluation of the proposed site at Jewar was conducted earlier but due to the time lapse there was a need to conduct a fresh study, Sinha had said.

The state government will implement the project through the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA). YEIDA has notified 3,000 hectares of land in Jewar for a “world- class” international airport. Of the total land, 1,000 hectares will be acquired under the first phase of airport development, which will cost Rs 2,000 crore. The government expects the entire project to cost Rs 15,000 crore to Rs 20,000 crore.

Senior minister Raju said that the government will honour the Operation Management and Development Agreement (OMDA) with GMR, which operates the Delhi Airport jointly with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for Delhi airport. As per this agreement GMR will have the first right of refusal in case an airport is built within 150 kilometres of the existing one.

The new airport will also provide seamless domestic and international connectivity to western UP with Noida, Agra, Mathura, Meerut, Vrindavan, Meerut, Moradabad and Bulandshahr likely to serve as the catchment area for the new aerodrome.

Noida International Airport will become like an aerotropolis with an airport at the center and a whole host of economic activities around it.

Tourism to destinations such as Mathura, Vrindavan and Agra will also see a major boost, and it is also likely to serve as major logistics hub for various manufacturing and export centers in the western part of the state.

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