19 Railway Stations identified for making them World class Stations

Nineteen stations viz. Pune, Carnac Bunder (Mumbai), Howrah, Lucknow, Anand Vihar (Delhi), Bijwasan (Delhi), Amritsar, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Varanasi, Chennai, Thiruvanthpuram, Secunderabad, Ahmedabad, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Mathura, bangalore & Bhopal have been selected to convert into world class stations.

Railway Board have issued guidelines to zonal railways for developing the identified stations into world class stations. As per the guidelines, the proposed World Class stations would broadly have state of art station building provided with all modern passenger amenities like food plazas, currency exchange counter, hotels, retail outlets, ATM facilities etc. It may have separate departure and arrival arenas to streamline passenger movements with proper connectivity to other transport modes; well illuminated circulating areas, adequate signages, inter platform transfer through elevators, barrier free excess for physically challenged persons etc. The development will be done on Public Private partnership basis. Consultants are being engaged for preparing the scheme, preparing financial model and concession agreement based on which the development will be. It is expected that the funds required for the development will be mobilized by the selected developer by leveraging the available land/air space. Pre-qualification of consultants for New Delhi Station has been done.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways Shri R.Velu in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

Source : Press Information Bureau

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