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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of Noida International Airport at Jewar, Uttar Pradesh (UP), on November 25, 2021. Chief Minister of UP Yogi Adityanath, Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Gen V K Singh, Sanjiv Baliyan, S P Singh Baghel, and B L Varma were among those present on the occasion.
Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said, ” The new India of the 21st century is building one of the best modern infrastructure today. Better roads, better rail network, better airports are not just infrastructure projects but they transform the entire region, transforming people’s lives completely.”
Modi said Noida International Airport will become the logistics gateway of northern India. This airport will make the entire region a powerful symbol of the National Gatishakti Masterplan, he added, according to a PIB release.
Commenting on the economic fallout of infrastructure development, Modi said employment opportunities are created during airport construction. The airport also requires thousands of people to run smoothly.“ This airport will also give new employment to thousands of people of western UP,” Modi said.
The Prime Minister said that after 7 decades of independence, for the first time, UP has started getting what it has always deserved. With the efforts of the double engine government, today UP is turning into the most connected region of the country. He said, NOIDA International Airport will play a major role in the growing aviation sector of India and will be a key center of maintenance, repair, and operations of aircrafts. He informed that the Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility is coming up in 40 acre, giving employment to hundreds of young people. Today India spends thousands of crore rupees for getting these services abroad, the PM added.
Commenting on the integrated multi-modal cargo hub that is coming up, Modi said that in a land-locked state like UP, the airport will be very useful. This hub will serve industrial centres like Aligarh, Mathura, Meerut, Agra, Bijnor, Moradabad, and Bareilly. He said Khurja artisans, Meerut Sports Industry, Saharanpur furniture, brass industry of Moradabad, Agra footwear and Petha industry will get huge support from the upcoming infrastructure.
Modi said that UP, which the previous governments kept in deprivation and darkness, was shown false dreams by the previous governments, is making its mark not only nationally but also internationally. The PM cited Jewar airport as an example of how the earlier governments in UP and at the Center ignored the development of western Uttar Pradesh. He said two decades ago the BJP government of UP had conceptualised this project. But later this airport was entangled in the tussle of the earlier governments in Delhi and Lucknow for many years. The government which was earlier in UP had written a letter to the then central government saying that the project of this airport should be shelved, Modi said.
The PM said, “Infrastructure is not part of politics for us but part of national policy (Rashtra Niti). We are making sure that the projects do not get stuck, do not hang in limbo or do not go astray. We try to ensure that the infrastructure work is completed within the stipulated time.”
Modi said that some political parties in our country have always kept their self-interest paramount. “The thinking of these people is self-interest, only their own and the development of their family. Whereas we follow the spirit of nation first. Sabka Saath – Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas – Sabka Efforts is our mantra,” Modi said.
“Selfish policies of certain political parties could not stand in front of our patriotism and national service,” the PM concluded.