New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that the Noida International Airport will attract investment of around Rs 35,000 and will provide around 1 lakh jobs, reported PTI. The statement came from the CM while he had personally visited the site to review preparations for its foundation laying ceremony. The ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar on Thursday.
"In the first phase, an investment of over ₹ 10,000 crores is expected in this area initially. The whole airport will eventually attract investment worth around ₹ 34,000 crore to ₹ 35,000 crore and more than one lakh people will get jobs here," said Adityanath.
The CM further said that the Noida International Airport will be the fifth international airport in the state. “We already have international airports in Lucknow and Varanasi,” said the CM. "Prime Minister Modi had recently inaugurated an international airport at Kushinagar while we have already been working on another international airport in Ayodhya," he further added.
Yogi Adityanath further said that the Noida airport will be of immense benefit to the people of Uttar Pradesh especially from the National Capital Regions and districts falling in the western part like Gautam Buddha Nagar, Aligarh, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr.
The CM also said that the airport will bring several employment opportunities like MRO — maintenance, repair, and overhaul for the aircraft at the airport.
According to Adityanath, the airport will become operational in the year 2024." This airport's construction will be completed and it will go functional in 2024, becoming the fifth international airport of Uttar Pradesh,” he added.
He claimed that this airport “will be the first airport in India which will be free of any kind of pollution and it will not only be India's but Asia's biggest airport.”