Centre puts UP airport projects on fast track

At a review meeting held here to assess the progress on the development of seven regional airports in the state and implementation of the proposed regional connectivity scheme (RCS), the Civil Aviation Ministry has advised the UP government to complete the obstacle survey for the Jewar airport in Gautam Budh Nagar at the earliest.

 National airports operator AAI had signed an MoU with the stare government in February 2014 for the development of no-frill airports /civil enclaves at Agra, Allahabad, Bareilly, Kanpur, Faizabad, Meerut and Moradabad.

Agra and Allahabad will start operations immediately under the regional air connectivity scheme, while flights from the two other regional airports Bareilly and Kanpur will commence from later this year, MoS for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said.