478.1 acres required for Ayodhya airport
n With a proposal to build an airport at Ayodhya, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has placed a demand for 478.1 acres, required for the development of the first phase of the facility.
n Informing this in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, “The UPGovernment has informed that they have earmarked Rs525.92 crore for acquiring land for the airport.”
n A multi-disciplinary team of the AAI visited the existing Ayodhya airport in December last year to conduct a pre-feasibility study.
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