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Centre grounds Maya`s airport hub plan

Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow July 17, 2008, 0:18 IST The project will not be able to meet its Commonwealth deadline The Centre has put the proposed Rs 3,500-crore global airport hub at Noida in Uttar Pradesh into cold storage and the ambitious project would not be able to keep its date with the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The matter is pending approval from the Union Cabinet since long even as the government has allowed development of a greenfield airport within the 150-km radius of an existing one on a case-to-case basis.