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GREATER NOIDA: As the UP government looks to launch the construction of the first phase of Jewar airport soon, it is considering building a 29km metro line to connect it with the newly commissioned Noida metro line. Jewar airport is expected to become operational in 2022-23. Pari Chowk has been proposed as the interchange station.Officials said DMRC, which built the Noida metro, has completed the techno-feasibility report of the 29km corridor. Once cleared, we can expect work to begin on metro connectivity to Jewar sometime this year, following a decision on the central-state sgare of funding for the project,” Singh added.Singh, who is also nodal officer for Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), a body constituted by the UP government last year to get the Jewar airport project rolling, added, “Metro connectivity to Jewar will be via Aqua line. For this, final logistics of an interchange at Pari Chowk Aqua line will be decided in our board meeting.”In the second phase, there’s a proposal to connect Jewar airport to Indira Gandhi international airport in Delhi for which a techno-feasibility report will be prepared..