New Delhi: The hurdle for Jevar becoming the
second airport in the National Capital Region has been cleared. The Central
Government has given a green signal to the proposal to build an international
airport in the area Javar adjoining Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh.
This airport
will be ready in five to six years. On one hand it will reduce the burden on
existing airport at Palam, on the other hand it can prove to be an economic
picture-changer of Noida, Greater Noida and the entire western Uttar Pradesh.
Civil
Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju said in a brief press conference on Saturday
that the proposal to build a new international airport in Jewelery has got the
approval of the Center. All other
formalities related to it will be completed soon. He said that the Yamuna
Expressway Industrial Development Authority of Greater Noida has identified
3000 acres of land for a world class airport. Therefore, there will not be much
delay in starting work on this.
In the first
phase, the Central Government will acquire only one thousand acres of land. It
is estimated to cost Rs two thousand crore. Minister of
State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said that the capacity of the airport
will be three to five crore passengers annually. Accordingly, it will be
included in the country's largest international airports from the beginning.
According to
Sinha, the burden of the passengers is already growing at the existing airport
of Delhi. Now it is a burden of seven million passengers, which will increase
to 10-11 million in a few years. But, this
will not be an ideal situation. In this sense a new airport was needed. With
this, Delhi will join the few of the world's few cities, where there will be
two international airports simultaneously.
The
Government's intent is to connect it with Mathura, Agra, Bulandshahr and Meerut
in the coming days. Existing Noida and proposed Greater Noida Metro Line will
also be linked to it. However, to make this airport, the government will first
offer GMR to the new international airport in Palam.
If GMR
denies it, then only open tender will be issued for it. For many years, GMR
continued to protest the Javar airport on the grounds that it would affect its
business.
According to
the agreement signed by GMR to create a new airport in Palam, it will not make
any other airport within 150 km radius.
If made
later, approval will be taken first by GMR. Political importance of Jever
Airport is not even less. It has been a very important issue in state politics
for many years. The BJP had
also promised that if he came to power, it would go ahead with the issue of
Airport airport by talking to the Center. Now that the state has BJP government, the Center has fulfilled its promise.
Earlier,
despite the efforts of SP and BSP governments in the state, the former UPA
government did not approve it.
--Anshuman