The bhoomi pujan ceremony for the upcoming international airport at Jewar in Greater Noida near Delhi is likely to take place on April 15.
The bhoomi pujan ceremony for the upcoming international airport at Jewar in Greater Noida near Delhi is likely to take place on April 15, local MLA Dhirendra Singh said on Monday.
“The bhoomi pujan for the first airstrip is likely to be held on April 15. We are hoping that the first international flight will take off from this airstrip by 2024,” Singh said.
The Jewar MLA has directed officials to resolve all displacement and land acquisition-related issues at the airport site in the next couple of days.
“This is a dream project of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and officers have been given an ultimatum to resolve all pending issues to start the construction as soon as possible. He is taking stock of the developments every day,” Dhirendra Singh said.
On Thursday, Dhirendra Singh interacted with residents of Nagla Ganeshi village and assured them of resolving rehabilitation and resettlement-related issues immediately.
Earlier this month, some farmers there had opposed land acquisition alleging discrepancies in land allotment.
FAMILIES YET TO RECEIVE COMPENSATION
Nagla Ganeshi is one of the villages in Jewar in western Uttar Pradesh whose land falls in the project site.
According to a report by news agency PTI, as many as 232 families of Nagla Ganeshi are to be moved to Jewar Bangar, a township being developed by the state government for rehabilitation and resettlement.
Scores of families in Nagla Ganeshi claimed that they were yet to get compensation against their homes which they would use to build new houses in Jewar Bangar, the PTI report said.
Although monetary compensation against their acquired land has been provided to almost all of them but compensation against houses and other properties – mandated by the Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act – is yet to be paid to many of them, the report added.
The airport project comes at a time when scores of farmers in Uttar Pradesh, mainly from the western belt, are already furious over India’s three contentious farm laws.
