Navi Mumbai, Oct 8 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), describing it as a "glimpse of Viksit Bharat", or developed India, that will help make the Mumbai region Asia's biggest connectivity hub.

The first phase of NMIA, also the country's largest greenfield airport, has been built at a cost of Rs 19,650 crore and is set to be operational in December Earlier, the aircraft carrying Modi landed at the new airport, the second one in the Mumbai region, at around 2.40 pm.

Spread across 1,160 hectares, the airport will have one terminal and one runway in the first phase with an annual passenger handling capacity of 20 million.

The entire project is being developed in multiple phases by Navi Mumbai International Airport Ltd (NM

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