The entire project will be spread over 5,000 hectares and estimated to cost Rs 29,560 crore. The airport, the third in the national capital region after Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport and Ghaziabad’s Hindon airport, is touted to have six to eight runways.

The Uttar Pradesh government has set an aggressive deadline for the completion of the Jewar airport project, targeting operationalisation of its first phase by 2023. The first phase of the airport would be spread over 1,334 hectares and cost Rs 4,588 crore.

Sources said that implementation of the project would take place in four phases, with the last phase scheduled for completion by 2040. The Jewar airport in Greater Noida would be able to handle over 160 million passengers per annuum making it the largest airport in India.