It's just different usage, but to someone living in the U.S. it sounds funny. The spokesman has used rest rooms to mean room in a transit hotel and the lounge to mean the waiting area beside the gate.

[QUOTE"Earlier, either the passenger had to leave the airport or had to wait for long hours in the waiting lounge. Now, the rest rooms for such passengers have been constructed to ease their tiring journey," said a DIAL official. [/QUOTE]

Air commuters to relax in peace and stay connected in 100 restrooms with Wi-Fi
Now these are hi-tech rest rooms. Wi-Fi when you are holding your wee-wee, makes me think of some interesting possibilities.

Hey I am not making fun of Indians, just having fun with different usages., like when you ask for a rubber in the U.S.?