Jewar airport’s scale model grabs eyeballs at Noida haat
NOIDA: The scale model of the Noida International Airport, scheduled to come up at Jewar, put on exhibition at Noida Haat in Sector 33A, grabbed attention from visitors on Monday.
The model has details of passenger and cargo terminals and other facilities under this project. Some visitors were seen taking selfies with it.
Senior police officials and Noida International Airport Limited’s (NIAL) chief executive officer Arun Vir Singh also visited the stall.
In December last year, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had given his approval to the name, design and logo of the airport, which will be the second major airport in Delhi-ncr.
“Now, the state government will sign the support agreement with the Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL) so that work can be started at the site. It is likely to be signed next month,” said the NIAL chief.
The exhibition was part of an event organised to celebrate the UP foundation day. The CM, who addressed the event through videoconference, said the Noida airport would be the largest in Asia.
“The project was announced 10 years ago. But it’s our government that expedited work . This project will become a focal point of growth in UP,” he said.
On the occasion, Surendra Nagar, Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, said, “Gurugram saw exponential development because it was near the IGI airport. Now, Noida will have an airport along with world class infrastructure and this region will supersede Gurugram in terms of development.”
Swiss firm Zurich International AG, the concessionaire of the airport project, will invest ₹30,000 crore in the project and it gets 40 years to fully develop this project. Under the PPP model, the concessionaire will design, build, finance, operate and transfer the project to government after 40 years. The airport will start with two runways by 2023-24 under phase I and it will have five runways on completion to full capacity.