Second airport to be set up in NCR: Government

New Delhi: A second airport will be set up in National Capital Region (NCR), Union minister Mahesh Sharma informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

Without providing specific details, he said the Steering Committee on Greenfield Airports has recommended a proposal to set up an airport in Alwar, Rajasthan. Alwar is not part of NCR.

To a query on whether a second airport in NCR would be set up, Sharma replied in the affirmative.

“The Steering Committee on Greenfield Airports has recommended to the ministry of civil aviation the proposal of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Ltd (DMICDC) for setting up of a greenfield airport at Kotkasim Tehsil in Alwar district, Rajasthan,” the minister of state for civil aviation said in a written reply.

The response was to a question on whether the site for the second airport has been finalized.

Sharma said necessary details regarding project cost, financing, schedule of the project and implementation are worked out by the airport promoter and submitted at “in-principle approval stage”.

“The proposal has not reached that stage,” he said and added that the stage for assessing the air traffic potential has also not been reached.

Last month, Sharma had said the government has approved setting up a second airport in NCR.