Team hunts venue for airport foundation stone laying event
GREATER NOIDA: The hunt is on for a site to host the foundation stone laying ceremony of the upcoming Noida international airport, which is likely to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
The date of the event is yet to be finalised.
Gautam Budh Nagar police commissioner Alok Singh, Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) and Yeida chief executive officer (CEO) Arun Vir Singh, and Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh, who is also part of the search team, inspected a plot in Ranhera around 4pm on Monday.
“Nothing is final yet — neither the land nor the date. We have visited Ranhera and Sector 28 (where the ‘medical devices’ park is proposed to be set up). We may visit other sites too later. We will follow the Uttar Pradesh government’s instructions and do the needful. We cannot comment further on this,” said Yeida CEO Singh.
“If everything goes according to the plan, bhoomi pujan and inauguration ceremonies for these mega projects will take place in August-end,” said MLA Dhirendra Singh.
According to Singh, he has suggested Ranhera for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the airport as that was the first village where land acquisition for the airport project had started.
Yeida has shortlisted 16 agencies for management of the mega airport event, the officials said.
Swiss company Zurich Airport International AG has been selected as the concessionaire for developing the international airport at Jewar. There will be two runways in phase 1 and the airport is expected to become operational by 2023-24. In total, the airport is projected to have five runways when it is developed to its full capacity over about 5,000 hectares of land.