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Gulbarga Airport is a greenfield airport being built to serve Gulbarga in Karnataka, India. The project site is 15 km East of the city on State Highway 10 (Sedam Road) near Srinivas Saradagi village. The Airport is being built by the Karnataka State Public Works Department (PWD) with technical assistance from the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The Rs. 120 Crore project was initially scheduled be built under Public–private partnership (PPP) with the Government of Karnataka (GoK) However, due to delays in project execution, the contract was terminated in January 2015. In April 2017, the Kalaburagi Airport completed 25% of its 3260m x 60m runway development project. The project was originally planned for completion in Dec-2017 but has been delayed to Feb-2018 following the Karnataka State Government’s decision to cancel an MoU with Gulbarga Airport Developers Ltd.Kalaburagi Airport will receive its first commercial service from Mar-2018. The airport’s current runway will be extended from 1970m to 3260m as part of its next development phase.Project historyOn 15 November 2007, the government of Karnataka awarded the Gulbarga Airport project to a consortium of Maytas Infra Ltd. (Now IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Limited), NCC Infrastructure Holdings Ltd (NCC) and VIE India Project Development and Holding on a Build–operate–transfer (BOT) basis. The concession period was to be 30 years, extendable by an additional 30 years, by mutual agreement.