Noida's Jewar airport: PM Modi to lay foundation stone on November 25, all you need to know - in Pics

The airport at Jewar will be the fifth international airport in Uttar Pradesh on completion. It will also be the second international airport to come up in Delhi-NCR after the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Strategically located, this airport will serve the people of Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Agra, Faridabad and the neighbouring areas.

The much-awaited project is being flagged off just weeks before schedule of the UP Assembly elections are announced. Modi had inaugurated the Kushinagar international airport on October 20. Another international airport is under construction in Ayodhya. (Pic: ANI)

The development of the first phase of the airport is being done at a cost of over Rs 10,050 crore. Spread over more than 1,300 hectares, the completed first phase of the airport will have a capacity to serve around 1.2 crore passengers a year and work on it is scheduled to be completed by 2024.

The airport having passenger terminals with 70 million capacity, 186 airport stands, a cargo terminal with one million tonne capacity will be connected by the Yamuna Expressway, Western Peripheral Expressway, Eastern Peripheral Expressway, Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Noida Metro and proposed 800 km long high-speed Delhi-Varanasi rail line. (Pic: Pixabay; representational purpose)

An airport hotel, a VVIP terminal, an open-access fuel farm, an airport rescue and firefighting building and a big rain harvesting pond are also planned for the complex. (Representational picture)