Noida International Airport is an international airport being constructed near

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. Once completed, it is planned to be India's largest airport. The Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) will be the implementing agency on behalf of the

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. The airport is to be developed through a public-private partnership model (PPP). In 2019,

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, the operator of

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in Switzerland won the bid to build and operate the airport for 40 years. The

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(NHAI) is also constructing a greenfield highway from Jewar Airport to Sector-65,

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. The proposed plan is to build a two-runway airport by 2024, and at a future date, to expand it into a six-runway airport. According to the plan, the airport will handle five million passengers per annum (MPA) initially and up to 60–120 MPA, after its expansion over a period of 30 years. It will be the third commercial airport in the National Capital Region, after

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and

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History

The project was first proposed in 2001 by then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister

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as a greenfield Taj International Aviation Hub (TIAH) at

near

Greater Noida Greater Noida is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city was created as an extension to Noida area under the ''UP Industrial Area Development Act, 1976''. Situated south-east of t ...

, adjacent to the

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. The Central Government cleared the techno-feasibility report for setting up TIAH in April 2003. It was to be built at an approximate cost of 5000 crores by the year 2007–2008. The project was put on hold during the UPA regime because the project site was within of an existing

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in Delhi. This site was within of

(IGI), Delhi. Its operator

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had protested against plans for another international airport within of the existing Delhi Airport, claiming that it would impact traffic and revenue generation. GMR has the right of first refusal (RoFR) on a new airport within of the existing Delhi Airport. The RoFR was to ensure that GMR gets preference in bidding for the Greater Noida airport in case its bid price is within 10% of the lowest bidder. When the Akhilesh Yadav-led government was formed in Uttar Pradesh in 2012, it contemplated shelving the project while proposing a new international airport in Agra. In June 2013, the State Government decided on the Kurrikupa village near Hirangaon,

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in the

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as the site for the proposed airport. In January 2014, the Defence Ministry raised some objections regarding the site near Tundla. The state government allocated land near Etmadpur for the proposed airport in November 2014. In 2014, the

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(BJP) was voted to power at the centre and the project was again shifted back to Jewar. The civil aviation ministry cleared the proposal for the new airport to be set up on of land in June 2015. The Union Ministry of Defence (MoD) cleared the project in June 2016. The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) gave an in-principle approval to the Uttar Pradesh government to build the airport in May 2018. In July 2017, the Union Chief Secretary for Aviation warned the Uttar Pradesh government to expedite the planning process as

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was also pushing for its competing

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approval for building another airport to serve the NCR region, thus prolonging the

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for both airports due to a still-feasible-but-diluted viability for both.

Location

The Noida International Airport (NIA) is located around north of

Town in

Gautam Buddh Nagar district Gautam Buddha Nagar district is a district of Uttar Pradesh, named after Gautama Buddha. It is a part of Delhi NCR and is divided into 4 sub-divisions i.e. Noida, Greater Noida, Dadri and Jewar. Greater Noida is the administrative headquarters ...

in India.

Noida Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) o ...

Dadri Dadri is a town and a municipal board in Gautam Buddha Nagar District in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Dadri Railway Station is a complex yard in North Central Railway spread over six kilometers on busiest route of Delhi–Kanpur–Pat ...

, and

are the three tehsils (sub-divisions) in this district. In October 2017, for the first phase of building the airport, the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) acquired land in villages such as Mukimpur Siwara, Dayanat Pur, Ramner, Kishorpur, Banwari Bas, Ranhera, Rohi, and Parohi. Similarly in January 2021, YEIDA started taking possession of land for the phase-2 expansion in villages such as Ranhera, Shahpur Nangla, Birampur, Karauli Bangar, and Dayanat Pur (

Tehsil). The project site is located from

(IGI), the airport that currently serves the needs of the entire

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and is quickly reaching its peak capacity. Jewar Airport is from

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, from

Palwal Palwal is a city and a municipal council. It is the headquarters of Palwal district, the 21st district of Haryana state in northern India. It is a centre of the cotton trade in the area. It is also a part of National Capital Region. Etymo ...

, from

and from

Ghaziabad Ghaziabad () is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a part of Delhi NCR. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghaziabad district and is the largest city in western Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,729,000. Ghaziabad Mun ...

, and

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. It is about from Pari Chowk in

, from

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, from Gurgaon and from

Agra Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra i ...

. It will be connected to the

, allowing domestic and international tourists to reach Agra,

, and

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India's largest airport

With six runways once all its expansions are completed, it will be India's and Asia's largest airport and will be the fourth-largest airport in the world. In 2019, a proposal was made to build two additional runways to bring the total to eight runways once completed, subject to the availability of land. The proposal has been approved by Chief Minister

Yogi Adityanath Yogi Adityanath (born on 5 June 1972 as Ajay Singh Bisht),

. It will also be India's first net-zero carbon emissions airport. Only the Chicago–O'Hare and the Dallas/Fort Worth airports are larger, with eight and seven runways respectively. Other existing airports with six runways are

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, and

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, Houston–Intercontinental, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, and Toronto–Pearson have five runways. As of September 2019, with four runways, the

has the highest number of runways of any airport in India.

Connectivity

Road

The Noida International Airport (NIA) shall be connected with various highways in

–

( NH-34) and Delhi–Ghaziabad–Meerut Expressway. The

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is also constructing a highway which will connect Jewar Airport with

on Delhi–Mumbai Expressway. The greenfield alignment is as follows (east to west): *

at Dayanat Pur village,

* KGP Expressway at Mohna village, Ballabhgarh *

at Sector-65,

Railway

Noida Airport is also proposed to be connected to

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via the Greater Noida route; and the

Delhi Metro The Delhi Metro is a mass rapid transit (MRT) system serving Delhi and its satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Bahadurgarh and Ballabhgarh, in the National Capital Region of India. The network consists of 10 colou ...

via the

– Ballabhgarh–

–

route. It is proposed to be connected with driverless pod taxis or personal rapid transit (PRT) from amusement park included in the proposed film city project, located in Greater Noida's Sector 21 to the airport. It is also proposed that the airport will have a high-speed railway (HSR) station in the proposed Delhi-Varanasi HSR corridor, included in India's High-Speed Rail project.

Construction

Construction work started in November 2021. At present, ATC, runway and terminal building work is under process.

Status updates

* 2001: The project was first proposed in 2001 by the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,

, as Taj International Aviation Hub (TIAH) in

. * 2012: The project was shelved by the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,

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, in 2012, and he planned to build a new airport near

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. * Aug 2018: The company called Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) formed. NIAL will handle the bidding and overall project management of the project. * Nov 2018:

approves the allocation of ₹ 1,260 crores for land acquisition. * Dec 2018: The airport will be built under the

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(PPP) model. * Dec 2018: The

Administration submitted the Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) document on land acquisition. * Jan 2019: Acquisition of of land will start by late January. * Feb 2019: In the Uttar Pradesh budget, the Government of Uttar Pradesh has allocated 800 crores for land acquisition to expedite the process.

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for the project to be laid in March 2019. * Mar 2019: Due to land acquisition related issues, the foundation stone laying ceremony is deferred for a few months. * Sep 2019: of land is acquired, which is 57% of the total requirement of for Phase-I of the project. The remaining land will be acquired soon, and the developer for Phase-I will be finalised by November 2019. * Nov 2019: Contract given to Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport AG) for developing and operating the airport for 40 years. * Jan 2020: Land acquisition completed for Phase-I of the project, which required , out of the total requirement of . Phase-I of the project will be completed by 2023. * May 2020: Tender issued for the of road connecting the airport to the

. The construction time of this road is 3 months. * Oct 2020: The final agreement signed between Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) and Zurich Airport AG, where the latter will build, operate, and manage the airport, through its special-purpose vehicle (SPV), Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL). * Feb 2021: The master plan for the airport is approved by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). *Jun 2021: Construction for the airport's Phase-I is expected to start by August 2021. *Jul 2021: The formal process of handing over 1,334 ha. of land for the project to NIAL on a 90-year lease was completed in the presence of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,

Yogi Adityanath Yogi Adityanath (born on 5 June 1972 as Ajay Singh Bisht),

. A shareholder agreement was also signed between the airport developer company, Zurich Airport AG, YIAPL, and NIAL. *Aug 2021: YIAPL and Zurich Airport AG start construction work for the main terminal and the boundary wall of the airport, as of 24 August. The deadline for completion of the terminal is set for September 2024. *Sep 2021:

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approves the master plan for the airport. *Nov 2021:

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laid the foundation stone for the airport on 25 November. *Apr 2022:

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, Tata Projects Limited and Shapoorji Pallonji bid for the civil construction contract of the airport. The winning bidder will be selected on 28 April 2022. *May 2022: Tata Projects Limited emerges as the lowest bidder for the civil construction contract for construction of the airport's terminal and other associated works, but the final contract is yet to be awarded. *Jun 2022: Tata Projects Limited was awarded the civil construction contract by NIAL. The airport will be TPL's second airport project after

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. * Jul 2022: Tender for -long spur package from Sector-65

(on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway) to Dayanat Pur near the airport's site has been awarded by the

(NHAI). * Aug 2022: The airport will be completed and will undergo testing in March 2024, while it will become operational for traffic in October 2024.

References

External links

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