Ayodhya Railways Station
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, December 28: Sensing that millions of the people from all across the world will visit Ayodhya after the inauguration of Ram Temple on January 22, the Railways has lined up a major bouquet of new rollouts in the ancient city. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the redeveloped Ayodhya Railway Station and flag off new Amrit Bharat trains and Vande Bharat trains.
He will also dedicate several other railway projects to the nation. The prime minister during his Saturday visit to Ayodhya will also be inaugurating the newly-built Ayodhya Airport. The Prime Minister’s Office in a media statement said that “the vision is to develop modern world class infrastructure in Ayodhya, improve connectivity and revamp its civic facilities while also conforming to the rich history and heritage of the city.”
Phase I of redeveloped Ayodhya Railway Station also known as Ayodhya Dham Junction Railway Station has been is developed at a cost of more than Rs 240 crore. The three-storey modern railway station building is equipped with all modern features like lifts, escalators, food plazas, shops for puja needs, cloak rooms, child care rooms, waiting halls. The station building will be ‘accessible for all’ and ‘IGBC certified green station building’.
The prime minister will also be flagging off a new category of superfast passenger trains in the country – the Amrit Bharat Express. The PMO said: “The Amrit Bharat train is an LHB push pull train with non air-conditioned coaches. This train has locos at both ends for better acceleration. It provides improved facilities for rail passengers like beautiful and attractive designed seats, better luggage rack, mobile charging point with suitable mobile holder, LED lights, CCTV, public information system, among others.”
The prime minister will also flag off six new Vande Bharat Trains. Modi will flag off two new Amrit Bharat trains viz Darbhanga-Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Amrit Bharat Express and Malda Town-Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminus (Bengaluru) Amrit Bharat Express.
Prime Minister will also flag off six new Vande Bharat Trains. These include Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Amritsar-Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Coimbatore-Bangalore Cantt Vande Bharat Express; Mangalore-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express; Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express and Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Vande Bharat Express.
The PMO also said in its statement that the prime Minister will also dedicate to the nation three railway projects worth Rs 2300 crore to strengthen rail infrastructure in the region. The PMO added “the projects include the Rooma Chakeri-Chanderi third line project; Jaunpur-Tulsi Nagar, Akbarpur-Ayodhya, Sohawal-Patranga and Safdarganj-Rasauli sections of the Jaunpur-Ayodhya-Barabanki doubling project; and doubling and electrification project of the Malhaur-Daliganj railway section.”
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