Jewar airport to be renamed Narendra Modi International Airport, UP passes resolution

Much significance is being attached to the state cabinet’s move, signalling strong faith in the PM’s leadership ahead of the 2027 UP assembly elections.

Updated on: Oct 9, 2026, 18:41:50 IST

By Umesh Raghuvanshi

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The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Friday passed a resolution recommending that Jewar’s Noida International Airport be renamed Narendra Modi International Airport after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said.

People stand on an escalator as they enter Noida International Airport (NIA) during a media visit to the project site, in Noida. (REUTERS)

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath presided over the meeting of the state cabinet, which also congratulated the Prime Minister on completing 25 years of continuous leadership as the head of government.

“The state cabinet is grateful to the Prime Minister for gifting the NOIDA International Airport Jewar to Uttar Pradesh, which is the state’s largest airport and going to become India’s largest aviation hub. In the coming years, this airport will take the state’s economy, industry, tourism and global connectivity to new heights. With this sentiment the state cabinet is adopting the resolution recommending renaming of NOIDA International Airport as the Narendra Modi International Airport, NOIDA, Jewar,” Yogi said, reading out the resolution.

Much significance is being attached to the state cabinet’s move, signalling strong faith in the PM’s leadership ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

UP’s two deputy chief ministers, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, along with ministerial colleagues representing BJP allies, including Sanjay Nishad, Om Prakash Rajbhar, Ashish Patel and Anil Kumar, were present at the state cabinet meeting and when the CM briefed the media about the decision.

Finance minister Suresh Khanna said the state cabinet’s resolution would be followed by due process to rename the airport.

The Noida International Airport, which the Prime Minister inaugurated earlier this year, has a long history as a proposed major aviation hub. It is considered an emerging alternative to the Indira Gandhi International Airport to handle rapidly growing air traffic.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Umesh Raghuvanshi
Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.Read More

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