PM Modi to inaugurate Rs 19,647 crore Navi Mumbai airport on October 8

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) on October 8, a senior Maharashtra government official confirmed on Saturday. The state-of-the-art greenfield airport has been built at a cost of Rs 19,647 crore and will mark the second major airport in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region after the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.

The commercial flight operations from Navi Mumbai Airport are expected to begin in December. The airport received its aerodrome licence from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on September 30.

The project is being developed in multiple phases by Navi Mumbai International Airport Ltd,



with the Adani Group holding a 74 percent stake and the remaining 26 percent owned by the Maharashtra government’s City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO).

“The second airport of Maha Mumbai — Navi Mumbai International Airport — is going to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 8,” CIDCO Vice Chairman and Managing Director Vijay Singhal told PTI after a media briefing.

According to Singhal, the Prime Minister will land at the new airport at around 2:40 pm and will spend nearly two hours at the facility. “The Prime Minister will first visit the terminal building, and then take a round of the terminal building, and then he will be addressing the audience,” he said.