Jabalpur is well connected by road, rail and has a single route air connectivity.
Air
Jabalpur Airport (IATA Code: JLR) is known as DUMNA Airport and is about 20 km from city. Kingfisher airlines via its Kingfisher red service ATR aircraft is providing one daily non-stop service on the Jabalpur-New Delhi route. This flight also provides connection to other cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Banaglore and Chennai via New Delhi. Indian Airlines runs four days a week non-stop service on the New Delhi-Jabalpur route and provides connection to other cities via New Delhi.
Kingfisher Red: Delhi Indian Airlines: Delhi.
Road
Jabalpur is well connected to Nagpur, Bhopal, Allahabad and Jaipur so you can travel easily by roads also.Jabalpur is well connected to Mandla for every ten minutes there is a state bus. The city is connected with three National Highways
- NH-7 (Varanasi-Kanyakumari)longest National Highway in India which goes from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to the southernmost tip of India, Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.
- NH-12 (Jabalpur-Jaipur)
- NH-12A (Simga, Chattisgarh-NH-26 near Jhansi),
Railways
Jabalpur is the headquarters of West Central Railways and is well connected with mail and super-fast trains from Mumbai, New Delhi,Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Kolkata, Raipur, Vadodara, Patna, Guwahati Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu, Hyderabad,Surat, Varanasi, and Goa. Apart from broad-gauge railways, Jabalpur is notable for having narrow-gauge railways (which connect withGondia). Work to convert this Gondia-Nainpur-Jabalpur narrow gauge to broad gauge has been started under Project Unigauge and will provide new opportunities as southern India will be reachable quickly. Gondia Jabalpur was the first of the trains started by British government. It passes through beautiful mountains, valleys and forests on its way. Many trains are offering services from Jabalpur Station.
Local transport
Jabalpur, the city of marbles, is fast emerging as a center of trade and commerce in the state of Madhya Pradesh. In the context of rapid growth of the city, increasing mobility, high travel demand, increasing intensity of traffic, congestion, delays, accidents and other such problems, public mass transport system of the city stands out as the most critical issue. The intra-city public transport system is essentially road based with 110 private mini buses and 250 tempos and 10,000 auto rickshaws.Other than that Mini Buses, Autos, Tempos enable good and cheap transportation in the city. Cycle Rickshaws are also helpful in local routes which are quite cheap and eco-friendly and constitute the main source of transportation. Since there was no specialized and effective regulatory agency to monitor the system a special purpose vehicle in the form of public limited company Jabalpur City Transport Services Limited has been set up to operate and manage the public transport system in Jabalpur with PPP model to overcome financial constraints. On this PPP model very comfortable low-floored GPS enabled Star-Buses fleet called as METRO BUS FACILITY have been introduced sice year 2005 and have been running very successfully. Recently,Radio-Cab service has also been introduced in the city sice end of year 2009.The 24 hour Radio cab service is called as METRO TAXI,which are GPS enabled cars and can be booked through a phone call. Customer Service number for METRO TAXI is 0761-4055555
Media
Both the print media and the broadcast media are actively involved in the process of enlightening people on all matters of national as well as global importance.
Newspapers
The Jabalpur media houses employ journalists who provide a comprehensive coverage of all the important news. Although the popular English and Hindi newspapers of India are available in the city, the local Hindi newspapers record the maximum readership. The local newspapers issued, that have a large circulation include the following:
- Dainik Bhaskar
- Swatantramat
- Nai Duniya
- Raj Express
- Haribhumi
- The Hitwada
- Nav Bharat
- Daily Deshbandhu
- Patrika
- People Samachar
- Yash Samachar
- Nazi Samachar
Radio
The radio channels available in Jabalpur include
- Red FM 93.5 Tag Line : Bajate raho..
- My FM 94.3 Tag Line : Jiyo Dil se!
- Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM Tag Line : Its Hot!
- Radio Dhamaal 106.4 FM
- Akashvani 102.9
- Gyan Vani 105.6
