The Taj International Airport was proposed to be built near Jewar in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, near the Delhi-NCR region, India. The Uttar Pradesh government scrapped the ambitious project in May 2012 and appointed a Consortium of RITES and KPMG as consultants to locate another site around Agra or Mathura to build an airport by the same name.
The Union government was not keen on clearing the project because it was too close to the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi. It was designed to serve the people of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Haryana to export flowers and other agri-goods from the Taj Special Economic Zone to markets in the Middle East and Europe.
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