JEWAR AIRPORT: GAUTAM BUDDH NAGAR ADMIN ACQUIRES 30 HECTARES OF LAND

GREATER NOIDA: The Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration on Friday acquired 30 hectares of land from village Dayanatpur for the construction of Jewar International Airport and handed its physical possession to Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA). Officials said that this is fifteenth instalment of the total

land in favour of Jewar airport which had been handed over to YEIDA.

Deputy collector of Gautam Buddh Nagar, Abhay Kumar Singh, who is also the in-charge of Jewar airport project said that the administration is acquiring

lands of only those farmers who have received compensation.

“The administration has to hand over 1,239 hectares of land out of the total 1,334 hectares which is required for the first phase of the project. By far the administration has given physical possession of 78.53 per cent which is 973 hectares of the total required land to YEIDA. Also the administration has distributed compensation of nearly 992 hectares of the land to farmers. Files relating to the rest of the land are being cleared and resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) packages are being prepared simultaneously,” said Singh.

Officials said that the land acquisition process got started on August 6, with administration handing over 80 hectares of land from Ranhera village to YEIDA. This was followed by 45 hectares from Parohi on August 16, 78 hectares from Kishorepur on August 19, and 225 hectares in Rohi and 4.5 hectares in Banwariwas on August 21.

The global tender to hire a developer for the proposed airport was floated on May 30 by the Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), an agency formed by the UP government for managing the mega project in Gautam Buddh Nagar district.

Shailendra Bhatia, officer on special duty at YEIDA, told

Millennium Post that so far, 20 bidders have purchased the document for the selection of the concessionaire for Jewar Airport. “The bids can be submitted by October 30 while the opening of technical and financial bid will take place on November 6 and November 29 respectively. By the end of 2019 we will be able to select concessionaire who will develop the airport project,” said Bhatia.

The officer further said that work on the project is expected to begin by 2020 and the first phase is likely to be completed by 2023.

“The airport project will cater a capacity of 12 million passengers in first phase which will gradually increase to 70 million by the fourth phase construction. The total cost of the airport project which is expected to be one of the biggest in country will be 29,560 crores,” added Bhatia.