All four applicants in Noida International Airport clear technical criteria
Saurabh Kumar
Noida: The Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), on Thursday, said that as per the project monitoring and implementation committee (PMIC), all four companies, which had applied to develop the Noida International Greenfield airport project at Jewar, were found to be technically qualified.
The PMIC, under the chairmanship of UP chief secretary, in Lucknow on Wednesday evaluated proposals of all four companies – Delhi airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited, Zurich airport operator Flughafen Zurich AG, Adani Enterprises Limited and Anchorage Infrastructure Investment Holdings Limited.
The final decision to award the contract will be taken on November 29, where one of the four qualified companies would be selected.
Financial bid will be opened on 29th November, 2019 at 3pm at NIAL’s office:
Ist Floor, Commercial Complex, P-2,
Sector Omega-1, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
“We opened technical bids for selection of concessionaire on November 6. The PMIC evaluated the bids and found that all four companies qualified for the airport project. Now, we will open financial bids on November 29 in the Greater Noida office to finalise the concessionaire who will develop the airport project,” NIAL nodal officer Shailendra Bhatia said.
For the first phase of airport 1,334 hectare land has been acquired out of which 1239 hectare are from six villages. Total of 3167 crores has to be distributed as compensation out of which till October 30, 2491crore has been already distributed. So as per that compensation for 1006 hectare has been distributed and 998 hectare is remaining.
A global tender was floated to hire a developer for the proposed airport on May 30 by the NIAL, an agency floated by the Uttar Pradesh government for managing the mega project in Gautam Buddh Nagar district.
The airport, the third in the national capital region after Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport and Ghaziabad’s Hindon airport, will be spread over 5,000 hectare and cost an estimated Rs 29,560 crore and is planned to have six to eight runways, the most in India, when fully built, the officials said.
