Navi Mumbai International Airport: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the Navi Mumbai International Airport today. Prime Minister Modi will reach Navi Mumbai around 3 pm and will undertake a walk-through of the newly built Navi Mumbai International Airport. Thereafter, around 3.30 pm, he will inaugurate the airport.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Navi Mumbai International Airport and launch and dedicate various projects in Mumbai today. He is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra on October 8 and 9. Although the airport will be formally inaugurated in October, commercial flight operations are expected to begin in December. This will be the second airport serving the Mumbai metropolitan region and is twice the size of the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The airport is being developed in four phases under a public-private partnership.
