Development work on India s biggest airport and a new film city made sure Gautam Buddh Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh stayed in the limelight in a year headlined by a pandemic and lockdown. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, in his multiple visits to the district in 2020, dubbed Noida and Greater Noida show window of the state. Infamous for crime, the district switched to the commissionerate system of policing in January, a move that appeared to have bore good results as number of street and heinous crimes went down in 2020 over the previous year.
Police Commissioner Alok Singh, while presenting the crime data for the year on December 30, said the crime graph had gone down in the district and remarked that his force had been on an aggressive mode of policing to keep citizens safe.
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Meeting UP CM is also an eye-opener as he came across someone deeply engrossed in implementing the right schemes, focused on attracting investments, creating new jobs and weeding out corruption.
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Uttar Pradesh (UP) is India’s biggest state and has 20 per cent of India s population. India s economy to be a 5 trillion economy has to see UP becoming a one trillion economy. Annurag Batra, Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld met
Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and discussed what has been the achievements of the UP Government and what does the future hold for the people of UP.
UP Civil Aviation Minister to assess Noida airport project on Wednesday
The minister is scheduled to visit Jewar, where the Greenfield project is coming up, and later hold a meeting with Arun Vir Singh, the CEO of Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) and the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA)
PTI | December 29, 2020 | Updated 20:42 IST
Estimated to cost Rs 29,560 crore, the airport is being developed by Swiss firm Zurich Airport International AG
Uttar Pradesh s Minister of Civil Aviation Nand Gopal Gupta will visit the site of the upcoming Noida International Airport and review its work on Wednesday, officials said here on Tuesday. The minister is scheduled to visit Jewar, where the Greenfield project is coming up, and later hold a meeting with Arun Vir Singh, the CEO of Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) and the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), they said.
The airport at Jewar is going to be the biggest airport in India and the second biggest in Asia.
NOIDA: Notwithstanding the Covid-19 pandemic, the region surrounding the upcoming Noida International Airport has got investments worth Rs 7,617 crore this ongoing fiscal including those from some “big ticket” Fortune 500 firms, a top government official said.
From April till December, industrial plots were allotted to 911 companies which are expected to create 1.91 lakh jobs in this region in western Uttar Pradesh, Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) CEO Arun Vir Singh told PTI in an interview.
Singh, also the CEO of the Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), cited the figures as he asserted that the mega greenfield project has triggered massive infrastructure development including road and rail connectivity in Uttar Pradesh s Jewar region around 70 km from the national capital.
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