Will planes actually fly from Jewar Airport or is crisis set to get worse?
A total of 5,000 hectares of land has to be acquired for the airport, which is estimated to cost around Rs 20,000 crore. The airport is likely to be operational by 2022-23, if the land is acquired. Over 1,300 hectare is to be acquired from five villages - Rohi, Parohi, Dayanatpur, Ranhera and Kishorpur - during the first phase of the project.
the Civil Aviation department had fixed the August 31 as the deadline for seeking the farmers' consent, but this date was later revised to September 6. Representative Image, source: Zee News