Rajasthan CM Breaks Ground on ₹19.62 Crore State Terminal Building at Jaipur Airport's State Hangar

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma performed the bhumi pujan (groundbreaking ceremony) on Thursday for a new State Terminal building at the State Hangar of Jaipur airport. The state government has been allotted 12,778 square metres of land for the project.

The first phase will be built at a cost of ₹19.62 crore. It will include two VIP lounges, an on-board hall, a meeting hall and 10 rest rooms, along with a travelling cabin and a security room. In the second phase, a hangar and tarmac for helicopter parking will be built to strengthen helicopter-operations infrastructure in the state.

Sharma said the building would combine modern facilities with elements of Rajasthan's art, culture and architecture. Jodhpur's Soorsagar sandstone will be used on the exterior walls and pillars, and jharokhas, arches and chhatris will reflect traditional Rajasthani architecture.

Sharma said tourism plays an important role in the state's economic and social development. He noted demands for better transport for devotees travelling from Jaipur to Khatu Shyamji, Salasar Balaji and Mehandipur Balaji, and said more facilities would be developed in the coming years so pilgrims can complete the trip and return the same day.

He said development work is under way at 10 helipads in the state and 85 railway stations are being renovated. Nearly one-fourth of the country's expressways pass through Rajasthan, and the state is building nine new greenfield expressways. Efforts are under way to increase air services in Barmer and Kota, air connectivity is being expanded in Jodhpur and Kishangarh, and 145 acres of land have been allocated for the expansion of Udaipur airport. The BJP state president and MLAs from Jaipur city attended the programme.

A purpose-built state terminal separates official and VIP movements from the commercial passenger flow at a busy airport. Where a state government owns the hangar and now adds lounges, meeting space and security, it gains its own handling capacity on the airfield, which also matters to operators serving government and executive travel.

The second phase points to helicopters as a growing part of the state's access plan. The Chief Minister tied this to pilgrimage circuits and same-day return trips, and to work under way at 10 helipads. Short-hop rotary services are how states with dispersed religious and tourism sites typically try to link them to a main airport.

The next milestones are the completion of the first-phase building and the start of the hangar and tarmac work for helicopter parking. Those stages, rather than the groundbreaking itself, will show how much operational capacity the state actually adds at Jaipur.