Question: Recently Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu Launched the first Phase of the Station Redevelopment Program comprising how many Railway Stations of Indian Railways?
(a) 20
(b) 22
(c) 23
(d) 25
Ans:(c)
Related facts:
- On 8 February 2017; Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu launched the first Phase of the World’s largest Station Redevelopment Program.
- It comprises 23 major Railway Stations on Indian Railways network.
- The 400 stations to be redeveloped will provide amenities and services to the passengers in line with best in class railway stations.
- The stations will be redeveloped through public-private-partnership (PPP) model without straining Railways’ finances.
- In the first phase, 23 stations will be bid out some of which include Chennai Central, Ranchi, Udaipur City, Indore, Yesvantpur, Bangalore Cantt., Visakhapatnam, Howrah, Kamakhya, Faridabad, Jammu Tawi, Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Kozhikode and Bhopal.
- Railways will provide approximately 140 acres of encroachment free land at these stations to the developers on a 45 year lease.
- Indian Railways has also appointed nodal officers in each zone to ensure smooth interactions with the developers.
- These stations have been selected for this phase after detailed feasibility studies carried out by our Strategic Advisors, The Boston Consulting Group.
- Railways mission is to redevelop railway stations using the surplus revenue that will be generated from commercial development of spare railway land.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=158286
https://twitter.com/sureshpprabhu/status/829359230360510464