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Railways approves Rs 212.48 crore for Gandhinagar Jaipur redevelopment work

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Jaipur (Rajasthan) | November 8, 2024 9:11:50 PM IST
The railways have been developing Jaipur's suburban station Gandhinagar-Jaipur with world-class facilities under the Amrit Station Scheme. The redevelopment work of Gandhinagar Jaipur has been approved for Rs 212.48 crore and at present the work is in progress at war footing.

The building being constructed at Gandhinagar Jaipur station has taken shape and now further work is being done at a fast pace. Recently, the work of girder launching was completed for the construction of a huge air concourse of 72 meters in width and 48 meters in length for the first time on the entire Indian Railways at this station. Which is an excellent example of engineering efficiency. The Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw praised this work and congratulated every employee associated with the work for this.

In the air concourse, passengers will get facilities like a waiting room as well as a shopping complex, cafeteria, and game zone and this area will be available for passengers as well as the general public.

Two new buildings are being constructed at Gandhinagar Jaipur station. Provision has been made in the station building for the arrival and departure lobby, vestibule, security check area with baggage scanner, help desk area, departure hall, toilets, RPF room head TC room etc.

Facilities like unreserved waiting rooms, executive waiting rooms, and toilets will be made available on platform 1. Facilities like access control, metal detector system, baggage scanner system, waiting room, retail stalls, modular toilets, stairs, lifts, escalators etc. will be available.Along with this, the station redevelopment will have green building-based facilities for a reduction in energy consumption, which will be equipped with renewable energy along with resources like waste disposal, rainwater harvesting system etc.

The railways are developing Jaipur's suburban station Gandhinagar-Jaipur with world-class facilities under the Amrit Station Scheme. The redevelopment work of Gandhinagar Jaipur has been approved for Rs 212.48 crore and at present the work is in progress at war footing.

The building being constructed at Gandhinagar Jaipur station has taken shape and now further work is being done at a fast pace. Recently, the work of girder launching was completed for the construction of a huge air concourse of 72 meters in width and 48 meters in length for the first time on the entire Indian Railways at this station. Which is an excellent example of engineering efficiency. The Honorable Railway Minister praised this work and congratulated every employee associated with the work for this.

Speaking to ANI, Chief Public Relations Officer, North Eastern Railway Gorakhpur Pankaj Kumar Singh said, "In the air concourse, passengers will get facilities like a waiting room as well as a shopping complex, cafeteria, and game zone and this area will be available for passengers as well as the general public. Two new buildings are being constructed at Gandhinagar Jaipur station. Provision has been made in the station building for the arrival and departure lobby, vestibule, security check area with baggage scanner, help desk area, departure hall, toilets, RPF room head TC room etc. Facilities like unreserved waiting rooms, executive waiting rooms, and toilets will be made available on platform 1. Facilities like access control, metal detector system, baggage scanner system, waiting room, retail stalls, modular toilets, stairs, lifts, escalators etc. will be available. Along with this, the station redevelopment will have green building-based facilities for a reduction in energy consumption, which will be equipped with renewable energy along with resources like waste disposal, rainwater harvesting system etc."

"A record number of special trains were run on Chhath Puja, through which Yat Yatris came to their homes and now Chhath Puja is over. Special trains are also being run for their return and are being run in record numbers. First of all, we will talk about today, out of the special trains being run by North Eastern Railway, two such trains are ours, which are from Uttarakhand. It's going on, apart from this, if you look at the overall numbers in the trains running from Uttar Pradesh, then Aria in all three places of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand comes under our connection. All in all, we are running thirty seven special trains. First of all, let's talk to Gorakhpur and a special train has been run from Gorakhpur to Ahmedabad at 7:30 AM this morning. A train has run from Gorakhpur for Ah Bandra Terminus i.e. for Mumbai at 9:30 pm. A special train has been run from Ghazipur city to Udhna i.e. Surat at 9:30 pm. A train has been started from Gorakhpur to Sealdah at 11:30 pm. A train will run from Gorakhpur to Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at 2:30 pm. A special train will run from Banaras to Mumbai at 2:30 pm. From Gorakhpur to Pune at 5:30 pm. A train will run from Gorakhpur to Guwahati at 8:55 pm minutes. A special train will run from Gorakhpur to Mumbai for Lokmanya Tilak at 9:10 pm. A special train will run from Gorakhpur to Chandigarh at 10:05 pm and we will run a train from Gorakhpur to Jodhpur at 11:25 pm. Besides this, there is a passing train which is going through Gorakhpur. And there is an important station Chhapra, from there we have planned many trains. Such as this morning we started a train from Chhapra to Katihar at 4:30 pm. We started a train from Chhapra to Amritsar at 9:50 am. A special train is running from Chhapra to Patliputra at 3:20 pm. We are running a train from Chhapra to Udhna i.e. Surat at 1.30 am. A train is running from Chhapra to Lucknow at 11 pm," he added.

"So in this way, we are running a lot of special trains for all major destinations and passengers will be able to travel back to their office car or destination through these special trains. For this purpose, additional arrangements have been made for the main stations where a large number of passengers come, such as the holding area has been made. In the passenger holding area that has been created, the seating arrangement as well as the public address system i.e. the announcement system, have been extended and taken to the place. The entire station is being monitored with CCTV cameras as well as the very popular holding area is also being monitored. In holding areas have been built at the station, there are daily special trains about which I was providing information, the daily position of trains is set up there. So all types of railways are ready so that passengers can reach their destination comfortably and easily. So let's talk about the status of the seats on the train which is running. Look how they are packed," he said.

"Because of the number of passengers, such a special train has been run and due to which such several passengers can come back. You have seen that crores of travellers have come from all over the country in Purvanchal, Bihar and Jharkhand and these travellers. If we go back to our destination, we are running all the special trains. The crowd from travellers For management, we have prepared to hold areas, so that if passengers are meant for any destination, they will be stopped in the holding area, when their train arrives on the platform where the special train leaves from here, then a direct one will be made and placed in those trains by RPF. We will be able to take advantage of the special train we are running at night and reach your destination easily. As far as reservation is concerned, we are continuously issuing its daily position for which trains have reservation vacancies in the upcoming dates. Therefore, there is a lot of relief in these special trains for the rest of the general class passengers. Through this, they will be able to reach their destination easily," he concluded. (ANI)

 
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