10,500 hectare manufacturing hub with 4 SEZs to come up along Yamuna Expressway

The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority has approved a plan to develop a 10,500 hectare urban centre -- about half the size of Noida city -- along the 165km Yamuna Expressway to Agra, with an aim to facilitate the setting up of manufacturing units to generate jobs and new business opportunities in the region, officials who took part in the authority’s 79th board meeting on Monday said. Officials said the board allowed Yeida to prepare a detailed project report of this mega industrial project and start procuring the land as the demand from investors for industrial land has increased in view of the upcoming Noida International airport in Jewar. While the board also approved Yeida’s Master Plan 2041, a blueprint for the next 18 years for developing areas under its jurisdiction, it did not arrive at a decision on hiking the toll on Yamuna Expressway, said officials. Speaking about the planned urban centre, officials said the board allowed Yeida to prepare a detailed project report of this mega industrial project and start procuring the land as the demand from investors for industrial land has increased in view of the upcoming Noida International airport in Jewar, The first phase of the greenfield airport is set to become operational by the end of 2024, said officials.