Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays foundation stone of Jewar Airport

[caption id=“attachment_10165351” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  Amid chants of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and ‘Bharat Maata Ki Jai’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Noida International Airport on Thursday. Image Courtesy: ANI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_10165331” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, and Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia were present at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Noida International Airport, in Jewar on Thursday. Picture Courtesy: ANI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_10165341” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  Prime Minister Narendra Modi was felicitated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Noida International Airport, in Jewar on Thursday. Image Courtesy: ANI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_10165421” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  The prime minister said that the Noida Airport will become the logistics gateway of north India. Image Courtesy: ANI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_10165431” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that Jewar airport (in Greater Noida) will help in the development of the nation. He added that it would be Asia’s biggest airport and will also create employment opportunities for more than 1 lakh people. Image Courtesy: ANI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_10165441” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  A political row also erupted between Samajwadi Party and BJP as Akhilesh Yadav tweeted in Hindi, stating that “had the BJP government at the Centre given permission for the proposed airport to be built in Firozabad during the SP government, then at this time ‘churis’ would also have got a chance to be associated with ‘jewar’ and the development of UP would have progressed towards perfection. Image Courtesy: ANI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_10165461” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]  On Wednesday, Mayawati claimed that her government had done “innumerable historic work” for the development of Uttar Pradesh and accused subsequent SP and BJP dispensations of taking credit for projects that were conceptualised earlier. Image Courtesy: ANI[/caption]