The central authorities has taken up redevelopment of the New Delhi railway station on Public-Personal Partnership mode at an estimated price of ₹5,000 crore, Union Piyush Goyal stated within the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
A Request for Qualification (RFQ) for the undertaking was opened on 2 February.
“The services proposed embrace congestion-free non-conflicting entry/exit to the station premises, segregation of arrival/departure of passengers, enough concourse space with out overcrowding, integration of each side of the town, integration with different modes of transport methods e.g. bus, metro, and so forth., user-friendly worldwide signage, nicely illuminated circulating space and adequate provision for drop off, choose up and parking,” the railway ministry stated in a press release.
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The New Delhi station is linked to the IGI Airport by way of the Airport Categorical Line Metro and with Delhi NCR through Yellow Line of Delhi Metro. DTC bus stops lie on each side of the station.
Pedestrian motion, cycle tracks, inexperienced tracks and non-motorized Car have been built-in into the proposed growth plan.
The Railways had stated final week that 9 corporations together with Adani Railways Transport, ISQ Asia Infrastructure Investments, and GMR Highways, have expressed curiosity within the revamp undertaking.
Along with this, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, New Bhuj, Sabarmati, Surat and Udhna railway stations have been recognized for redevelopment in Gujarat.
Works are at a complicated stage of completion at Gandhinagar. RFQ has been finalized for Sabarmati station. RFQ for Surat and Udhna stations have been submitted to Public-Personal Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC), Ministry of Finance, for appraisal.
Station redevelopment is deliberate by leveraging actual property potential of sparable land and air house in and round stations, inviting personal participation. For this, Railway conducts techno-economic feasibility research of stations throughout the nation. Based mostly on the result of those feasibility research, stations are taken up for redevelopment in phases.
