As per reports, a proposal has been sent by the district administration to the State Government for the acquisition of 105 acre including 65 acre private and 40 acre Government land for the Kangra-Gaggal airport expansion project. The CM of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had ordered a social impact analysis for the expansion of the Gaggal airport. The social impact analysis is carried out before the land acquisition of the project is started. In the analysis, consent of the people, who would be displaced due the acquisition of land for the airport expansion, would be taken by the authorities. The airport expansion was a major demand of the tourism industry which would be carried out in two phases. An amount of Rs 400 crore was sanctioned by the Central finance commission for expansion during the tenure of the earlier BJP Government.