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Our India will get two railway type Airports and one of such Airport-like Railway Station is being built up at Habibganj in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The inauguration ceremony is slated to occur in December this year. Nation’s second such Railway Station is coming up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. It will be prepared by January 2019 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would introduce it in front of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit.
Enlisting some of the facilities and amenities of the Habibganj station, Mr Lohia said, “The station will include 600 comfortable waiting benches, clean and hygienic toilets, and large retail areas (similar to airports).” He went on to say that “The Railways is also exploring other ideas such as lounges and video-game zones, as well as virtual museums for these stations.
The retail space, he said, would include shops, cafe’s and fast food restaurants. The stations would also have free and secure WiFi available to all passengers.
Financial plan of Habibganj Station redevelopment is about Rs 450 crore (Rs 100 cr for Station, Rs 350 cr for Commercial Activities). According to a gauge, An income of around Rs 7 crore for each annum is being normal from the Habibganj Station. Consumption could be near Rs 5 crore. Expectation, Prime Ministers considers building up such Railways Status in the states where BJP isn’t in control also.
Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are less than nine months away from getting the country’s first two state-of-the-art “airport-like” railway stations. The two stations — Habibganj in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal and Gandhinagar in Gujarat — are part of the government’s ambitious one lakh crore rupee station redevelopment program to speed up modernisation of the Indian Railways.