Uttar Pradesh government scraps Mayawati's international airport project at Jewar

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has scrapped the greenfield international airport project at Jewar mooted by the previous Mayawati government citing unavailability of Centre's clearance for it.

"The state government has decided to scrap the project as we are not getting clearances for it from the Centre. We are planning to develop an international airport between Agra and Mathura", a senior official said.

He said the process of identifying land would be completed within a month and process of land acquisition would start after that. The airport project at Jewar, which is less than 100 kms from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, has not been given clearance as it flouted the rule that no airport can be constructed within 150 km from an existing airport.

The airport at Jewar was less than 100 kms from IGI Airport in New Delhi, and so was not given the clearance.

Despite repeated requests, the BSP government could not get a go ahead for the project.

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