Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari, Defence minister Rajnath Singh, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, and chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat attend a program held on the occasion of the inauguration of Emergency Field Landing at the National Highway in Jalore, Rajasthan. This is the first time that the National Highway will be used for the emergency landing of aircraft of the Indian Air Force.

The Indian Air Force has said that fighter jets including Jaguars and Su-30 MKIs would undertake landing demonstrations post the inauguration of the Emergency Landing Field. The fighter aircraft would both land and take off from the National Highway in Rajasthan's Jalore.

According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had developed a three kilometers section of the Satta-Gandhav stretch of NH-925A from Km. 41/430 to Km. 44/430 as an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) for the Indian Air Force, which is part of the newly developed two-lane paved shoulder of Gagariya-Bakhasar and Satta-Gandhav Section having a total length of 196.97 kilometers and costing of Rs 765.52 crores under Bharatmala Pariyojana.

The first aircraft to land during the demonstration was the C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria arrived in the transport aircraft.

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