UP to begin bid process for Jewar airport tomorrow

Global bids for Jewar airport on May 30

It will take 6 months to finalise a developer after which ground work will start.

LUCKNOW/GREATER NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh government will on May 30, start the process to hire a developer for the airport at Jewar in Greater Noida, which is expected to become the National Capital Region’s second airport and take the load off Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport once completed, two state ministers said on Tuesday.

“We will float a global tender on May 30 as per the directions mentioned in the cabinet order... It will take six months’ time to finalise a suitable developer... After six months, the work on this project will start on the ground,” said Arun Vir Singh, chief executive officer of the Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), an agency formed by the UP government for the project.

The Uttar Pradesh government will on May 30, start the process to hire a developer for the airport at Jewar in Greater Noida, which is expected to become the National Capital Region’s second airport and take the load off Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport once completed, two state ministers said on Tuesday.

The second airport in the National Capital Region, along the 165-km Yamuna Expressway, is expected to be operational by 2022-23.

Addressing media persons, ministers Siddharth Nath Singh and Shrikant Sharma said on Tuesday that the UP cabinet has approved the timeline for the implementation of the project, the request for quotation (RFQ) and the request for proposal (RFP) documents, and the draft concession agreement.

“We will float a global tender on May 30 as per the directions mentioned in the cabinet order... It will take six months’ time to finalise a suitable developer... After six months, the work on this project will start on the ground,” said Arun Vir Singh, chief executive officer of the Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), an agency formed by the Uttar Pradesh government to monitor and develop the airport at Jewar.

Singh said the state government hoped that selection of the developer would be made by January 2020.

He said considerable progress has been made on the project after getting an in-principle approval from the union government on May 9, 2018.

He said the project monitoring and implementation committee (PMIC), headed by chief secretary Anoop Chandra Pandey, decided the timelines on May 21 and that these were approved by the cabinet on Tuesday.

A senior state government official said the project would be implemented in four phases.

The airport will be developed on a public-private partnership (PPP) model.

NIAL has been authorised to select the developer for the airport and give the land on lease for 90 years.

Just before the announcement of Lok Sabha poll schedule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Jewar airport would be completed in time and all formalities and processes for the same were underway.

The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday also approved ?894.53 crore for rehabilitation and resettlement of families to be affected or displaced by the project.

NCR’s second airport gets wings

Jewar is expected to become the national Capital Region’s second airport and take the load off Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport once completed.

THE PROPOSAL

The second airport in the National Capital Region is expected to be operational by 2022-23

Greenfield Taj International Airport and Aviation Hub in Jewar first proposed by then Uttar Pradesh CM Rajnath Singh in 2001.

In 2012, the UPA government says that a second airport could not be set up within 150km of existing Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi.

In 2013, the Uttar Pradesh government shifts project to a site in Agra, 200 km from IGI Airport.

The ministry of civil aviation in June, 2017, allows work on techno-economic feasibility report

Dr Mahesh Sharma, then MP from Gautam Budh Nagar and Union Minister for State for civil aviation, in 2017 helped in resolving technical issues and got approval done for an airport at Jewar.

In July 2017, UP CM Yogi Adityanath orders start of work on Jewar airport project.

The UP government on October 2018 notified acquisition of 1,239.14 hectares of land for the development of the airport

In May 2019, UP Cabinet approves bid document and the concessionaire agreement for the project.

Noida International Airport Limited to select developer by December 2019.

~15,000-~20,000 cr Estimated budget for the airport project

5,000 hectares Land needed for the airport

2022-23 Year the airport is expected to become operational.

TENTATIVE TIMELINE

First runway to be made operational by 2023. Design capacity of handling 12 million passengers per annum to be achieved by 2028.

Phase II (2028-2030)

2nd runway to be constructed and design capacity of handling 30 million passengers to be achieved by 2034

Phase III (2033-35)

New terminal building to be added and design capacity of handling 50 million passengers per annum to be achieved by 2039.

Phase IV (2037-2039)

To be made operational by 2040. Design capacity of handling 70 million passengers per annum to be achieved by 2044.