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Greater Noida: Not only an international airport, Jewar will also boast of a world-class city around it. This was announced by the
\nYamuna Authority on Tuesday after its top officials held a meeting with representatives of Shapoorji Pallonji construction firm
\nthat expressed interest in the development work.
\n\u201cThe proposed city would be world-class in all respects. People living in the neighbouring areas, whose land would be
\nacquired, are mainly into animal husbandry and farming business. The new project will rope in all these people to provide them
\njob opportunities,\u201d said YEIDA CEO Arun Vir Singh.
\nSingh said Shapoorji Pallonji had expressed interest in developing the city. \u201cThe company representatives said that they have
\nexperience in building diverse civil and structural engineering infrastructure projects like stadium, auditorium, airports, hotels,
\nhospitals, townships, etc. We will look into their proposal,\u201d he said.
\nOn the sanctioned Jewar airport, Yamuna Authority officials said the Union environment and forests ministry had approved the
\ntechno-economic feasibility report. The ministry has put the report online for 45 days, seeking objections to the project,
\nfollowing which the environmental clearance will be granted.
\nSources told TOI the bidding for Jewar airport may take place in a month or two.
\nOn June 22, the Uttar Pradesh government\u2019s multi-disciplinary expert group held deliberations over the social impact
\nassessment (SIA) report on the Jewar airport. The experts discussed the issues in the report in details and asked the SIA team
\nto further study and elaborate on the social and economic impact of people who would be affected in the project.
\nThe SIA team has also been asked to study further about case-wise, religion-wise, gender-wise, income-wise, etc and submit
\nanother report which will be looked into at another meeting that will be held on J<\/p>\n