The Jewar International Airport is a upcoming international airport to be constructed in Jewar (55 minutes from South Delhi) in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. It is well connected with cities Delhi NCR , Agra, Bulandshahr, Greater Noida, Aligarh and Palwal.
Sep 2021: Central Government approves master plan for the airport.
Nov 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the airport on 25 November
Jun 2022: Tata Projects Limited awarded the civil construction contract by Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) beating infrastructure majors L&T and Shapoorji Pallonji. NIA will be TPL's second airport project after Allahabad Airport.
Proposed plan is to build a two runway airport by 2024. at a future date, to expand it into a 7,200 acres (2,900 ha) six-runway airport. According to the proposed plan, the airport will handle five million passengers per annum (MPA) initially and up to 60 MPA to 120 MPA, after its expansion over a period of 30 years.
"The Uttar Pradesh government has issued an allotment letter, granting 455 acres to yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Yogpeeth, for industrial and institutional use," Amarnath Upadhyay, an additional chief executive officer of the Yamuna expressway industrial development authority, said. The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) on Friday said at least five big manufacturing units will soon start operations near the Noida international airport at Jewar along the Yamuna Expressway. A mobile manufacturing unit is about to finish construction work and is likely to start operations in Sector 24. Three other units, which deal with packing material, food products and printing, will become operational in Sector 29 and one unit that is into product labelling is set to become functional in Sector 32 next year. The mobile manufacturing unit alone is expected to create at least 7,000 jobs. The four other units will create around 8,000 jobs.