On 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),[REF] NCC Infrastructure Holdings Ltd (NCC) and VIE India Project Development and Holding on a Build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis.
The State Government terminated the contract in January 2015 for not complying with the Project Development Agreement (PDA), which required the completion of construction work by May 2012.