Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the Navi Mumbai International Airport on October 8, a senior Maharashtra government official said on Saturday.

The official also said the commercial flight operations from the greenfield facility will commence in December.

Cost of building, ownership

The airport has been built at a cost of ₹ 19,647 crores. The airport, the second in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region after the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, secured its aerodrome licence from the aviation safety regulator DGCA on September 30.

"Almost ₹ 19,647 crore have been spent on phase one, and once all the four terminals are completed, we would have an approximate expenditure of 1-lakh crore," Singhal said.

The project is bein

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