New Delhi, Jan 28: Centre has cleared a long-pending proposal for setting up of an international airport in Uttar Pradesh on the proposed Agra-Noida Expressway near Delhi, official sources said today. The planned airport would be constructed between Dhankaur and Jhevar, 80 kilometres from Delhi, as part of the 'Taj Special Economic Zone' (SEZ) project, the sources said. The clearance was provided at a meeting held between officials of the Uttar Pradesh government, Indian Air Force, directorate general of civil aviation and the airports authority of India at the initiative of the prime minister's office yesterday. The proposal, however, has to be approved by the union cabinet which is likely to take it up in the next two months, the sources said.
The state government had early last year proposed the setting up of the international airport at greater Noida, which was turned down by the government on the grounds that it would be close to the existing Indira Gandhi international airport in Delhi.
Bureau Report