Noida International Airport: All you need to know about India's jewel coming up at Jewar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Noida International Airport in Jewar today at 1 pm.

The development of the first phase of the airport is being done at a cost of over ₹ 10,050 crore.

The Noida International Airport is being developed in public-private partnership mode and is touted to be the biggest airport in India and fourth largest in the world upon completion. It will be developed in four phases, with the entire project estimated to cost around Rs 30,000 crore.

Here's all you need to know about the new airport:

• Noida International Airport: Jewel of India coming up at Jewar in UP
• Noida International Airport: India's largest, fourth in the world
• Area 59 sqkm, 4th largest after King Fahad Airport in Saudi, Denver and Dallas airports in US
• To be built in four phases at the estimated cost of 30,000 crore
• Phase 1 likely to complete by 2024, to serve 1.2 crore passengers a year
• Noida International Airport to have 5 runways, Delhi airport has 3
• Will be the fifth international airport in UP after Lucknow, Varanasi, Kushinagar & Ayodhya
• It is being billed as India's first 'net zero emissions' airport