Noida: Uttar Pradesh to have one of the five international airports as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone for Noida International Airport at Jewar in Gauta Buddha Nagar today. 

Taking this good news to Twitter, PM Modi said that the project will boost commerce, connectivity and tourism in Uttar Pradesh. The development of the first phase of Jewar Airport is being done at a cost of over Rs 10,050 crores.

The airport is spread over more than 1300 hectares of land.

The completed first phase of the airport will have a capacity to serve around 1.2 crore passengers a year and the work on it is scheduled to be completed by 2024. This airport will be the second international airport to come up in Delhi NCR. It will help decongest the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.

The Noida International Airport will be implemented in four phases and the work on the first phase is scheduled to be completed in 36 months, said Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal.