Lucknow: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi put the Stone Foundation of the Noida International Airport (NIA) in the Jewar on November 25 (Thursday), the top will spread its wings to have five international airports – the highest in this country.
It came a few days after PM inaugurated Kushinagar International Airport to lay east on a global tourist map.
The Yogi Aditentalath government also tried to track Ayodhya International Airport even when the state prepared assembly selections in the next few months.
Previously, only Lucknow and Varanasi were categorized as the international airport above.
The chairman of the Minister of Yogi, which is scheduled to visit the inauguration ceremony site in Ruhi Village on Tuesday, will hold a meeting to oversee preparation.
Mentioned as one of the mainstay projects in the National Capital Region, the projected plane will appear as a large civilian flight center with four helipads and five runways.
Built in an area of more than 3,000 hectares, the airport will be built and operated by Zurich International Airport based in Switzerland.
In the first phase, which is scheduled to be completed in 2024, the airport will have the capacity to handle 12 million passengers per year.
The airport is also projected to reduce air traffic congestion at IGI International Airport in Delhi.
Projected as the largest airport in India after its settlement, Nia is located about 72 km from IGI airport in New Delhi, 40 km from Noida and about 40 km from multi-capital logistics center in Dadri.
It will have multi-capital connectivity because it is close to Yamuna Expressway (Greater Noida to Agra), close to the East Peripheral Expressway and it will have a link with Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Ballabhgarh, Khurja-Jewar NH 91, Link to Dedicated Corridor Shipping, Extension Metro from Noida to Nia and the link with the proposed high speed rail (Delhi-Varanasi) at the airport terminal.
A spokesman for the state government said that the state had succeeded in implementing “world-class connectivity” and infrastructure in a short time of less than five years.
“The country only has two international airports since 2012 when Varanasi got a difference after Lucknow,” he said.
At present, rising has eight operational airports, while 13 airports and 7 airfields are being developed.
The operational airport handling commercial flights above is Lucknow, Varanasi, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Agra, Kanpur, Prayagraj and Hindon (Ghaziabad).
“It is also in the government’s commitment to ensure multi-capital connectivity that is not disturbed on land, railways, water and air,” he said, an ambitious prime minister’s national plans had permeated urgency in the planned infrastructure development in the state.