Rapido will set up waiting area-cum-booking kiosks at KSR Bengaluru City, Sir MV Terminal in Byappanahalli, Yeswantpur and Hoodi stations. Namma Yatri will have its kiosks at Krishnarajapuram and Whitefield
Among those lined up include petroleum & natural gas projects worth Rs 1.49 lakh crore, Railway projects worth Rs 4,742 crore and fertiliser projects worth Rs 9,512 crore
In a post on X, PM Modi said, "Today is a historic day for our Railways! At 12:30 PM, 2000 railway infrastructure projects worth over Rs. 41,000 crores will be dedicated to the nation.
The redevelopment, which will cost Rs 24,470 crore, will provide modern passenger amenities along with ensuring well-designed traffic circulation, inter-modal integration and well-designed signage for guidance of passengers, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said, adding that the design of the station buildings will be inspired by local culture, heritage and architecture.
Ashwini Vaishnaw attended the foundation stone laying ceremony for a coach maintenance factory at the Aurangabad railway station in Maharashtra.
The up-gradation work of the Delhi Cantt Railway Station is expected to be completed in 30 months from the award of the tender.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on May 26 launch the projects to redevelop railway stations in Chennai Egmore, Rameswaram, Madurai, Katpadi and Kanyakumari.
Earlier, the Railways had said that private players who redevelop these stations will levy airport-like fee, included in ticket fares, on passengers for these stations which will be included in ticket fares.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given me this responsibility and my father has wished me to bring smiles on the faces of each passenger. I would try my best to rise to the expectations of both,” he said during the foundation-laying ceremony for a building at a railway station here.
While Madhya Pradesh's Habibganj station will be ready by December, Gujarat's Gandhinagar station will be completed by January 2019, said S K Lohia, the Indian Railway Station Development Corporation (IRSDC) Managing Director and CEO.
The company's Mango Sip is currently available in all major formats of IRCTC. It has started supplying Fruits Up in key stations and aims at expanding its presence across entire railways network, it said in a statement.
This will be the first time in 92 years that there will be no separate Railway Budget but the provisions related to India‘s largest transport services provider will form part of the main Union Budget.
As part of its programme to upgrade facilities for rail users, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said here today that 200 more stations and some additional trains would be provided with Wi-Fi in 2017.
Last week, the technology giant rolled out its wifi service in four major stations- Sealdah, Lucknow junction, Lucknow and Gorakhpur junction,taking the total number of stations with such facility to 19.
Around 400 railway stations across the country will be revamped into iconic structures as a station is a starting point of any city and attracts maximum footfalls, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said today.
This is in continuation with its project to provide high-speed public Wi-Fi service at 100 Railway stations across India by end of the year, Google said in a release.
"As per Google, which is a world's top company, when this work will be completed by next year, this WiFi will have the fastest speed across the world among public WiFi's," Prabhu said, adding that this has been already proved at Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar stations.
The Parliament was informed today about 2,376 railway stations in India lack essential amenities for passengers.
"Development of stations under 'Adarsh' station scheme was started in 2009-10. 1,052 stations were identified under 'Adarsh' station scheme and out of which, 946 stations have been developed till 2014-15," he said in Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
This is part of the US-based firm's focus on bringing Internet to everyone in India, which has the world's second largest population.
In the first phase of the project, all trains passing through 45 specified railway stations, including nine in the east zone, namely Howrah, Sealdah, Guwahati, New Jalpaiguri, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, Kharagpur and Mughalsarai have been named.