However, as it is the second time the US-based Raytheon Infrastructure Services has had to give up its investment plans in India, the first being the alumina project in Gujarat, negative signals will be sent out to the global investing community.

The global tender for the second airport at Bangalore was floated, as Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), whichruns the existing one for commercial use, wanted to discontinue the service. The Tata consortium had signed the MoU on the basis of the Karnataka government's assurances that HAL would stop commercial operations after the new airport came up, the site of the new airport would be at Devenahalli near Bangalore and that the project would be set up on a build, own and operate basis. The three stipulations have, however, been challenged by individual politicians and political parties, leading to inordinate delays in granting final approval to the project. The project was a good business proposition for the Tata consortium, and so they had opted for it. Had the government too treated it as a commercial decision and the issue had not been unduly politicised, Bangalore would soon have had an international airport of global standards.