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After Varanasi inland port, UP to speed up work on Noida's Jewar Airport

Yogi has allocated Rs 160 billion proposed Jewar International Airport as an aviation hub for North India

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addresses a press conference on completion of four years of Narendra Modi government at the Centre, at the party office in Lucknow on Saturday | Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow

Last Updated : Nov 14 2018 | 7:18 PM IST

Within days of PM Narendra Modi unveiling inland waterway port in Varanasi as a future cargo hub for Eastern India, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has showcased the proposed Jewar International Airport in Noida as an aviation hub for Northern India.

Adityanath reviewed the progress of Jewar Airport on Tuesday. He underlined the airport's utility not only for Western UP pockets, but also for neighbouring states of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana. He said the airport would become a milestone in the path of economic development of UP and connect major tourist and trade hubs of Mathura and Noida.

The airport is

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