New Delhi: For the second airport in the National Capital region, the land acquisition process for Jewar international airport is likely to begin at this month end for early November with the administration in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh Nagar submitting the final proposal to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s office.

The state government is expected to start acquiring land by end of October or beginning of November, an administration official said.

“As per procedure, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will first approve the social impact assessment (SIA) report and the process of land acquisition will begin soon after, district magistrate BN Singh said.

On September 25, Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Anup Chandra Pandey had approved the SIA, put forth at a meeting in Lucknow.

In the first phase, the state government will acquire 1,257 hectares of land from six villages along the 165-km-long Yamuna expressway.

Earlier, the plan was to acquire 1,441 hectares of land from eight villages, including Rohi, Parohi, Banwaribas, Ramner, Dayanatpur, Kishorpur, Mukimpur Shivara and Ranhera. However, the district administration excluded Kishorpur and Mukimpur Shivara villages from the first phase of land acquisition.

According to suggestions made by the state government, the consultant for the airport project, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) India, and other officials are studying the modalities of the concession agreement prepared by the Centre’s planning department.

A concession agreement is a grant of rights, land or property by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity.

“The PwC is revising the concession agreement. Once the state government approves the agreement modalities, the process of selection of a developer for the project will start,” a senior official said.