JODHPUR, July 5 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood inside a new terminal built to move 20 lakh passengers a year and launched a national aviation scheme whose last version left half its routes empty.

Modi inaugurated Jodhpur airport's new terminal building on Friday, a Rs 480 crore facility with six aerobridges and an apron built to hold eleven A-321s and an ATR-72, and used the occasion to formally launch the Modified UDAN Scheme, the government's ten-year, roughly Rs 29,000 crore attempt to fix a regional connectivity program whose first version did not work as advertised. Rajasthan Governor Haribhau Bagde, Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu, Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and state Chief Minister...