[4] The airport would serve the logistics requirements of the DSIR, which is planned as a huge industrial township in the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project,[5] as well as to relieve congestion of the existing Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport serving the cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat.

[6] The Airports Authority of India (AAI) inspected the site in January 2010 to carry out a techno-economical feasibility study[7] and gave its technical clearance the following month.

Following this, the Gujarat government holding dropped to 33% while the remaining 16% is held by the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC).

[4] Phase 1 civil works involved construction of the airport’s infrastructure including a 3,200 metre long runway suitable for 4E category aircraft, taxiways, aprons and road network.

[14] In June 2022, the Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the development of Phase I at an estimated cost of Rs.