Jaipur International Terminal Building inauguration today

Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel will lay the foundation stone of a new International Terminal Building at Jaipur's Sanganer Airport later in the day. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will be the chief guest. Union Minister of Mines Sis Ram Ola, Union Minister of State, Environment and forests Namo Narain Meena, Former Chief Minster of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot, Minister of Education, Law and Judicial Ghanshyam Tiwari, Leader of Opposition (Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha) Ram Narain Choudhary, MP (Lok Sabha) Girdhari Lal Bhargava and MPs (Rajya Sabha) Ramdas Agrawal and Krishan Lal Balmiki, Member of Legislative Assembly Kalicharan Saraf and Mayor Ashok Parnami will be the guests of honour. Once completed, the terminal building will accommodate 500 passengers at a time and is equipped with all modern passenger-related amenities, including customs and immigration facilities to handle international chartered flights.

On December 29, 2005, the Central Government had granted international status to the domestic airport in Jaipur. With this, Jaipur will become the 14th international airport in the country. The Sanganer Airport belongs to the Airport Authority of India (AAI). It is one of the 12 modern airports where passenger friendly facilities have been upgraded and modernized by the AAI. Since February 2002, Indian Airlines has been operating international flights from Jaipur to Dubai and Bangkok. The runway length at Jaipur Airport is 9000 feet. The civil apron can accommodate four AB 320 type aircrafts at a time. There is also a plan to extend the runway to 12000 feet and construct nine in contact parking stands with aerobridges. Currently, there are over ten international airports in the country, including those at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kochi, Goa and Ahmedabad.

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