DELHI WILL GET SECOND AIRPORT AT JEWAR

NEW DELHI: The Centre has given its “in-principle approval” for the construction of a greenfield airport at Jewar in UP’s Gautam Budh Nagar district, adjoining New Delhi. The new facility will be the second international airport to serve the catchment areas of the National Capital Region. The new aviation facility at Jewar—Noida International Airport—is expected to ease the infrastructure pressure on the Indira Gandhi International Airport located here. According to Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, the approval or site clearance has been given for the first phase of the airport, which is envisaged to be completed in five years. “We have granted inprinciple approval for a greenfield airport at Jewar (Greater Noida) to cater to the growing flying requirements of NCR,” Raju said at a press briefing here.