TNN | Jun 27, 2018, 07.02 AM IST
Greater Noida: Not only an international airport, Jewar will also boast of a world-class city around it. This was announced by the
Yamuna Authority on Tuesday after its top officials held a meeting with representatives of Shapoorji Pallonji construction firm
that expressed interest in the development work.
“The proposed city would be world-class in all respects. People living in the neighbouring areas, whose land would be
acquired, are mainly into animal husbandry and farming business. The new project will rope in all these people to provide them
job opportunities,” said YEIDA CEO Arun Vir Singh.
Singh said Shapoorji Pallonji had expressed interest in developing the city. “The company representatives said that they have
experience in building diverse civil and structural engineering infrastructure projects like stadium, auditorium, airports, hotels,
hospitals, townships, etc. We will look into their proposal,” he said.
On the sanctioned Jewar airport, Yamuna Authority officials said the Union environment and forests ministry had approved the
techno-economic feasibility report. The ministry has put the report online for 45 days, seeking objections to the project,
following which the environmental clearance will be granted.
Sources told TOI the bidding for Jewar airport may take place in a month or two.
On June 22, the Uttar Pradesh government’s multi-disciplinary expert group held deliberations over the social impact
assessment (SIA) report on the Jewar airport. The experts discussed the issues in the report in details and asked the SIA team
to further study and elaborate on the social and economic impact of people who would be affected in the project.
The SIA team has also been asked to study further about case-wise, religion-wise, gender-wise, income-wise, etc and submit
another report which will be looked into at another meeting that will be held on J