How to reach Jagdalpur

The Ethnic Capital of India

By Air

Jagdalpur (Bastar) has its own airport. From here DRDO, Air Force, BSF and CRPF are operating planes and choppers. The main airport of Chhattisgarh is Swami Vivekananda Airport, Raipur, which is 300 km from Jagdalpur (Bastar). It is well connected to major cities like Bhopal, Indore, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai . Vaizag Airport (VTZ ) is also around 300 kms away from Jagdalpur.

By Road

Regular bus services, whether express or sleeper based, ply to and fro the city of Jagdalpur (Bastar). They operate on a daily basis, through a well-connected network of national highways such as NH 30 . The other state bus transporters also operates such as TSRTC (Jagdalpur-Hyderabad), APRTC(Jagdalpur -Vishakapatnam,Vijayawada,Rajmundry),OSRTC etc.

By Train

Jagdalpur a district headquarter of Bastar district is well connected to the Vishakapatnam and Raipur by railways. Jagdalpur railway station is operated by East Coast Railway. This Railway line is the primary source of iron ore transport from NMDC bacheli to Vishapakatnam. At present Vishakapatnam -Kirandul Passenger (58501), Durg -Jagdalpur Express (18211), Hawrah-Koraput Express (18005), Hirakhand Express (18448) and Vishakapatnam-Jagdalpur(Night Express) are operational from Jagdalpur.