RLDA to Redevelop 49 Railway Stations Under Smart Cities Project
Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) has been entrusted with additional 49 railway stations across India, for redevelopment. It is already developing 60 railway stations as part of the Smart Cities project of the government. Some of these stations are Amravati, Rajkot, Mathura, Agra Fort, Bikaner, Kurushetra, and Bhopal, among others. The stations to be redeveloped by RLDA in the next phase include Meerut City, Moradabad, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (Mughal Sarai), Gorakhpur, Aligarh, Gonda, Mathura, Agra Fort, Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh; Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Gandhidham, Junagarh, Rajkot in Gujarat; Bhopal, Bina, Jhansi, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh; Beas, Jalandhar City, Bhatinda Junction, New Pathankot (Chakki Bank) in Punjab, among others. The stations to be redeveloped in Maharashtra include Sainagar Shirdi, Nanded, Amravati, Akola. In Bihar, the stations include those located in Chapra, Sitamarhi, Barauni, Darbhanga; Dhanbad, Tatanagar, Jasidih in Jharkhand; Tirunelvelli, Chennai Central in Tamil Nadu; Begumpet, Kachegoda in Telangana; Gudur and Rajamundry in Andhra Pradesh. Other stations include Bandel and New Cooch Behar in West Bengal; Bikaner and Jodhpur in Rajasthan; Palampur in Himachal Pradesh; Silchar in Assam; Kurukshetra in Haryana; Vasco-da-Gama in Goa; Mysore in Karnataka and Haridwar in Uttarakhand.
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