Road transport

Jaipur city is the capital of the state and is centrally located. The National Highway No.8 links Delhi to Ahmedabad and No.11, linking Bikaner to Agra passes through Jaipur district to a total length of 366 km. The total length of different types of roads in the district was about 4,102 km as of March 2000.

Rail transport

Jaipur district is connected with metre gauge rail route with Sri Ganganagar, Ajmer, Udaipur and Sirohi. Jaipur is also connected with major centres of neighbouring states such as Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and Delhi. Recently, Jaipur has been connected to the broad gauge system, enabling direct connections to cities like Sawai Madhopur, Kota, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Bombay, Howrah, Lucknow, Kanpur and Delhi.

Air transport

Jaipur has domestic air links with Jodhpur, Udaipur, Aurangabad, Delhi, Mumbai, and internationally with sporadic service to London, Dublin and Dubai.

Communication facilities

Post offices 599 Telegraph offices 143 Telecom centres 9 PCOs 859 Telephone exchanges 150

Places to see

Nahargarh Fort

Amber Fort The Amber Fort and Palace complex overlooking the artificial lake south of Amber town is one of the most popular tourist sites in the city, famous for its mixture of Hindu and Muslim architecture, and offering elephant rides from the town up to the palace courtyard.

Jaigarh Fort The Jaigarh Fort on the hills above the Amber Palace complex offers stunning views of the foothills of the Aravalli range, as well as attractions such as immense underground water-storage tanks, and what is reputed to be the world’s largest cannon.

Educational facilities/institutions

University of Rajasthan 45 Colleges, 2 Agricultural colleges, 22 Engineering colleges, 2 Polytechnical colleges, 1 Medical colleges, 554 Secondary and higher secondary schools, 1,460 Higher primary schools, 2,905 Primary schools, 6 ITIs, and 2 Agricultural research centre

Industry

No. of large and medium scale running units: 48 No. of small scale units: 19,544 No. of industrial areas: 19 Bagru, Bassi, Bais Godam, Bindyaka, Dudu, Hirawala, Jetpura, Jhotwara, Kaladera, Kanakpura, Kartarpura, Malviya Nagar, Phulera, Renwal, Sanganeer, Shahpura, Sitapura, Sudarshanpur and Vishwakarma.

Main industrial products

Jaipur district is a centre for both modern and traditional industry. Acetylene gas, ACSR (Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced) cable, ball bearings, bottling of LPG, ceramics, pottery, cold roll strips, common salt, corrugated boxes, deoiled cakes, durries, dyeing and printing, edible oil, electronic items, engraving on brass items, ferrous and non-ferrous castings, gems and jewellery, general engineering and manufacturing, granite slabs and tiles, hand made paper, handicraft items, halogen auto bulbs, hawai chappals, household electrical appliances, HT steel strips, iodized salt, lamps, laminated springs for railways, marble statues, marble tiles and slabs, moulded plastic components for electronics, perfumes, pigment colours, plastic containers, P.P. multifilament yarn, PVC cables, PVC doors, PVC footwear, canvas shoes, nitrochlorobenzene, oxygen gas, Portland cement, readymade garments, re-roller products, steel furniture, steel ingots, stone grits, synthetic leather, synthetic suits and shirts, tablets and capsules, two way radio and line, washing soap, wheat maida, suji, atta, woollen carpet, refined vegetable oil and vanaspati ghee.

Export items

Brass and lacquer work, enamel work, gems and jewellery, granite tiles, handloom, marble statues, printed cloth and textiles, readymade garments and woollen carpets.