 The first leg of this phase will bring the capacity to 18 million passengers annually, and the second leg will raise it to 20 million.The passenger terminal will be enlarged with additional security lanes, check-in counters and other facilities, and solar panels will be built on the roof.On October 2017 GHIAL CEO SGK Kishore confirmed that the airport expansion would start by January 2018 and it is expected to completed by the end of 2019.