The Jewar Airport in Noida faces a new hurdle as farmers have objected to the construction of a boundary wall of the International Airport. The have refused to give access to over 13.45 hectares of land as they have not received the expected compensation for it, a report by Navbharat Times said.
The work on the Noida International Airport in Jewar is going on in full swing. There are plans to begin testing in January 2024, with commercial flights beginning in October. However, the opposition to boundary wall may stall the plans.
Reportedly, the airport being built in Jewar will have a 17-kilometer-long boundary wall. With an incomplete boundary wall, wild animals keep entering the construction site. A separate effort is underway to establish a rehabilitation centre for these wild animals.
Yamuna Authority CEO Arunveer Singh said efforts were being made to compensate the farmers for this land in order to complete the airport's boundary wall. "There is some ambiguity in determining compensation that must be clarified at the governance level. It will be resolved in the coming days because it is critical to complete the boundary wall until the trial," NBT quoted Singh as saying.
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Why Farmers Are Protesting
The land at the centre of conflict was owned by the protesting farmers. They have said the land was barren, where no crops could be grown due to presence of 'rehu'. Rehu was commonly used as detergent to wash clothes by people in earlier days. To make this land fertile, its soil had to be fertilised using a variety of methods.
After 1920, a provision was made regarding this land, and the ownership rights of the land was transferred to farmers. Farmers who obtain ownership rights to land are also entitled to compensation for that land.
At present, out of 1,334 hectares of land in the first phase, 13.45 hectares of land belongs is disputed. The disputed land was to be included in aquired land in three phases.