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The Jewar International Airport project in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh continues to hang fire as farmers in six villages of Jewar tehsil play the hardball over land acquisition.
The project, estimated to cost around Rs 160 billion, needs about 5,000 hectares, and the airport alone would need more than 1,300 hectares to become operational by 2022-23. So far, 1,700 landowners have submitted their consent letters, and 650 hectares have been acquired even five days after the tentative deadline of August 31 from the concerned farmers.
Recently, chief minister Yogi Adityanath has also advised farmers to cooperate with the state
