The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) released a list of places across the country that qualified as underserved or unserved runways and suggested developing them in the next round of the central leadership's UDAN scheme. Karnataka's Hassan, Kolar and Raichur made it to the list and could see their runways develop soon.

The government analyzed these places based on their proximity to nature reserves, tourist destinations and religious sites. While Hassan and Kolar were close to spiritual places, Raichur was close to tourist destinations. The list had 10 places near nature reserves, 29 near tourist destinations and 15 near spiritual places, with a total of 54 runways.

The list included 11 places from Madhya Pradesh alone, 10 from Rajasthan and seven from Bihar.