The foundation stone-laying ceremony for the Jewar airport, is likely to be held between February 23 and 25, 2019,” Sharma, the MP from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Mahesh Sharma announced, on January 30, 2019. The proposed airport, the second in the National Capital Region (NCR) after Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, would cost around Rs 15,000 crores to Rs 20,000 crores and is expected to be operational by 2022-23.

Last week, a metro rail service was launched to connect Noida and Greater Noida and other projects are also underway, including elevated road corridors, Sharma said. “Anybody coming from Meerut can reach the Jewar airport in just 45 minutes. There will not be a single traffic light on the stretch connecting Jewar and Meerut,” Sharma said. Proceedings, for acquisition of around 1,300 hectares of land, for the first phase of the greenfield airport are underway.

Jewar Airport: UP government approves Rs 1,260 crores for land acquisition

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved a fund of Rs 1,260 crores, for acquisition of land for the proposed Jewar airport in Gautam Buddh Nagar, according to an official document

November 26, 2018: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved a fund of Rs 1,260 crores, released for acquisition of land in the first phase of airport construction, for the proposed Jewar airport in Gautam Buddh Nagar. The amount is to be spent for land acquisition and payment to the farmers concerned, according to an official document.

“The governor has approved sanction of Rs 1,259 crores, for the acquisition of land for the Jewar Airport in the financial year 2018-19,” special secretary Surya Pal Gangwar wrote, in a letter to the director of state Civil Aviation Ministry. At a meeting held in Lucknow to discuss the progress of the project, on November 14, 2018, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had directed officials of the Noida International Airport Limited and the Gautam Budh Nagar administration, to expedite work on the airport.

UP government issues land acquisition notification for Jewar Airport

Clearing the decks for the construction of an airport in Gautam Buddh Nagar’s Jewar, the Uttar Pradesh government has issued a notification, for the acquisition of land for the greenfield project

Uttar Pradesh’s civil aviation special secretary, Surya Pal Gangwar, on October 30, 2018, issued the notification for the first phase of acquisition of land for the construction of the Jewar airport. The Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration had, on October 17, 2018, completed the proceedings at its level and sent a proposal to the government for the acquisition of land from six villages in Jewar.

A total of 5,000 hectares of land is to be acquired for the greenfield airport, estimated to cost between Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000 crores. For the first phase of the airport, 1,334 hectares of land is required. 1,239 hectares of land belonging to farmers from six villages – Rohi, Dayanatpur, Parohi, Kishorpur, Ranhera and Banwariwas – will be acquired by the state government and due compensation will be given to them, officials said. The remaining 94 hectares of land in the region, already belongs to the government.

“Under Sub-section (1) of Section 11 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, the government of Uttar Pradesh is satisfied that a total 1,239.1416 hectares of land is required in the villages Banwariwas, Dayanatpur Kishorpur, Parohi, Ranhera and Rohi, in Jewar tehsil of district Gautam Buddh Nagar for public purpose, namely, the development of the Noida International Greenfield Airport, Jewar, through the Civil Aviation Department, Uttar Pradesh,” an official letter read. The proposed airport, the second in the National Capital Region (NCR) after Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, is expected to be operational by 2022-23.

“It is a big development. All stakeholders involved, have worked really hard for this. The administration will continue to ensure that the necessary proceedings hereon, are completed on time and the work on the airport begins as scheduled,” district magistrate Brajesh Narain Singh said. With the notification issued, the district administration will now take up detailed survey on the land and two months’ time would be given to anyone having any objection, with regard to the acquisition, administration officials said.

“The governor is also pleased to authorise the collector, district Gautam Buddh Nagar, for the purpose of land acquisition, to take necessary steps to enter upon, conduct survey of land, take levels of any land, dig or bore into the sub-soil and do all other acts as required, for the proper execution of work as provided and specified under Section 12 of the Act,” the letter stated. It also stated that without prior approval of the district collector, no person shall make any transaction or cause any transaction of land — sale or purchase – specified in the notification or create any encumbrances from the date of notification till land acquisitions are completed.

About 6.2 hectares of land has been earmarked from Banwariwas village, 395 hectares from Dayanatpur, 171.1 hectares from Kishorpur, 108.4 hectares from Parohi, 124.9 hectares from Ranhera and 433.1 hectares from Rohi, the letter detailed. A social impact assessment (SIA) study was carried out for the project by the Gautam Buddh University, which had submitted its recommendations to the state government. The SIA recommendations were approved by the government on October 10, 2018.

According to the SIA report, 5,905 families will be impacted by the project and out of these 5,007 are farmers’ families, while 898 are landless families. During the first phase, 1,775 families are likely to be displaced, it added. Some landowners, including farmers and villagers, had initially resisted the land acquisition, citing various reasons such as ‘inadequate’ compensation amount and related benefits, besides the resettlement policy. Around 72 per cent of the total families had given their consent for the project by mid-October, fulfilling the requisite legalities of at least 70 per cent consent for carrying out any such acquisition under the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation Act, the administration had said.

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