noida a rescue and rehabilitation centre will come up in dhanauri for wild animals affected by the construction of the noida international airportofficials said the state government had asked the forest department to complete the construction work within six months the facility will come up on 10 hectares and cost around rs 45 crorethe move to set up the rehabilitation centre comes after the yamuna international airport pvt ltd yiapl the developer of the airport in jewar urged the government to relocate the wildlife from around the project site as they were hampering construction activitiesyiapl ceo christoph schnellmann had informed the government that since fullfledged construction had begun at the site with manpower and machinery it had caused a depletion in food sources for the animals among animals found around the site are nilgai blackbuck indian gazelle monkeys golden jackals jungle cat and sarus craneson may 9 the chief secretary had chaired a meeting on the biodiversity conservation plan around the airport siteofficials discussed how the airport project could impact the wildlife in the region the special secretary of the civil aviation department had suggested that an interim rescue and rehabilitation centre was required to mitigate this impact said arun vir singh the ceo of the yamuna expressway industrial development authority yeidathe additional chief secretary of the forest department said the construction of the centre could be completed in six months if the necessary funds were made available he addedwhile the centre is likely to cost rs 45 crore an additional rs 90 lakh was earmarked for the restoration of the dhanauri wetlandofficials said while the noida international airport ltd nial the governments special purpose vehicle for the airport project would fund the rescue centre the forest department would set it upyeida and the forest department would provide five hectares each for the centre to come up the forest department already has five hectares in its possession yeida will hand over the remaining land for free singh saidaccording to the biodiversity conservation plan prepared by the wildlife institute of india wii blackbuck and sarus crane are the two key species found around the airport site a survey of the 1334 hectares where the first phase of the airport project is coming up and a 25km area around it has revealed that there are as many as 258 blackbucks there wii also recorded 76 sarus cranes in 31 independent sightings during the survey