Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 103 stations, together with Bikaner’s Deshnoke situated almost 200 km from the Worldwide Border with Pakistan, which have been redeveloped beneath the Railways’ formidable Amrit Bharat Station Scheme in Bikaner on Could 22 just about, a senior Railways official instructed The Indian Categorical.
Of the 103 redeveloped stations, 19 are in UP, 18 in Gujarat, 5 in Chhattisgarh, two in Bihar, three in Jharkhand, 5 in Karnataka, two in Kerala, six in Madhya Pradesh, 15 in Maharashtra, eight in Rajasthan, 9 in Tamil Nadu, three in Telangana and West Bengal every, the official mentioned.
One station every in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Puducherry, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh has additionally been redeveloped.
A few of the key stations redeveloped beneath the scheme, launched in 2022 aimed toward reworking 1,337 stations into “metropolis centres”, contains Rajasthan’s Deshnoke & Mandalgarh, Gujarat’s Dakor & Morbi, UP’s Saharanpur junction & Govardhan station, Telangana’s Begumpet, Bihar’s Thawe junction, MP’s Shajapur, Tamil Nadu’s Srirangam, and Karnataka’s Dharwad.
“These are medium-size stations, however they may change into one of many key centres for growth of small cities. The price of redeveloping every of the stations ranges between `5 crore and `30 crore every,” the official mentioned.
These stations are geared up with fashionable bathrooms, lifts, escalators, free Wi-Fi, improved passenger info system, ready areas, government lounges, greater circulating space and grand porch, the official added. The constructing design is predicated on native tradition and heritage.
Earlier, beneath the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, six stations have been redeveloped — MP’s Rani Kamlapati station, Gujarat’s Gandhinagar Capital station, Karnataka’s Sir M V Terminal Station, UP’s Ayodhya Dham Railway station and the primary part of Gomti Nagar Railway station, and the second entry of Odisha’s Cuttack Railway station.
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The venture envisions airport-like amenities corresponding to government lounges and enterprise centres, meals plazas and retail outlets, and free WiFi, peppered with native artwork and tradition, to return up at these choose railway stations, and is estimated to value Rs 1 lakh crore for all 1,337 stations.
In keeping with officers, most stations are being redeveloped by means of the Engineering, Procurement, and Building (EPC) mannequin, that means a contractor handles a venture from begin to end. Nonetheless, 20 initiatives — corresponding to at Pune, Delhi junction, Vijayawada, and Chennai Central — are being carried out in a Public Non-public Partnership (PPP) mode.
In keeping with knowledge from the ministry, round `8,000 crore was spent beneath the top of “buyer facilities” — a class beneath which the scheme comes — for 2023-24. The anticipated expenditure goal for the final monetary 12 months 2024-25 was `12,992 crore whereas over `12,000 crore has been allotted for FY 2025-26.
Of the 1,337 recognized stations, Uttar Pradesh has the very best (157), adopted by Maharashtra (132) and West Bengal (101).
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In the meantime, upgrading of 80 key stations corresponding to New Delhi, Gurugram, Ranchi Junction, Prayagraj Junction, Khajuraho, Ludhiana, Jaipur Junction, Jammu Tawi, Lucknow (Charbagh), Sabarmati, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai Egmore, New Jalpaiguri, Imphal, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore Cantt, and Hyderabad are being monitored beneath PM Gati Shakti — the nationwide grasp plan for multi-modal connectivity.