GMR Infra, Reliance among 19 companies bidding to build Noida airport

The airport will handle 70 million passengers and 3 million tonnes cargo annually when fully developed.

GMR Infra, Adani Group, and Reliance Infra are among the 19 companies in the technical bidding process for developing the ~16,000-crore Noida International Greenfield Airport project at Jewar in Greater Noida.

The Yogi Adityanath government is targeting to complete technical bidding by November 6; this will be followed by the financial bidding process. “We aim to complete the entire bidding process by February-March 2020,” Shrikant Sharma, UP Cabinet minister and state government spokesperson, told reporters in Lucknow on Tuesday.

He said the government is aiming for the commercial opening of the first runway by 2023.

Earlier, the state Cabinet approved the amended bidding