{"id":934,"date":"2017-03-12T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/?p=934"},"modified":"2017-03-12T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:09:44","slug":"bjp-win-revives-jewar-airport-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/bjp-win-revives-jewar-airport-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP win revives Jewar airport hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section1\">\n<div class=\"Normal\">NOIDA: With BJP&#8217;s clean sweep in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, a proposed mega infrastructure project \u2014 an international airport in Jewar \u2014 could finally see the light of day. Talk of the second international airport in <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Greater-Noida\">Greater Noida<\/a>resurfaced on Saturday, with the winning candidate for the Jewar assembly seat, Dhirendra Singh, listing it as his priority and Union minister for culture and tourism Mahesh Sharma, who is the MP from Gautam Budh Nagar, saying he would fulfil his promise to the electorate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last7brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last6brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Union home minister Rajnath Singh, while campaigning in Jewar last month, had also said the Jewar international airport, first proposed by him when he was CM of UP in 2001, had already got the required approval from the Centre. &#8220;Prime Minister <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Narendra-Modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a> is keen to develop world-class infrastructure in the country, which will help generate jobs,&#8221; Sharma told TOI. &#8220;The people of UP have shown their faith in the PM&#8217;s policies. We in turn will fulfil the aspirations of the people and my constituencies. We will seriously work towards establishing the airport in Jewar,&#8221; Sharma said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last5brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last4brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Dhirendra Singh also said the proposed airport in his constituency would be a matter of pride.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last3brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Yamuna authority has already reserved 5,000 acres for the project across 35 villages after it was first proposed in 2001.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last1brdiv\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Stay updated on the go with Times of India <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.toi.reader.activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">News<\/a> App. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/get.timesofindia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> to download it for your device.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOIDA: With BJP&#8217;s clean sweep in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, a proposed mega infrastructure project \u2014 an international airport in Jewar \u2014 could finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ipesas.in\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}