Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated phase-I of the Navi Mumbai International Airport, India’s largest greenfield airport project built at a cost of Rs 19,650 crore.

Spread over 1,160 hectares, the airport is expected to significantly enhance India’s aviation capacity and ease congestion at Mumbai’s existing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.

Developed under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, the Navi Mumbai International Airport will serve as the second international airport for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Before the formal inauguration, the Prime Minister took a walkthrough of the newly constructed terminal and its associated facilities.

Describing it as a “glimpse of Viksit Bharat” that will help make the Mumbai region Asia’s biggest conn

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