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Ministry of Railways

Adarsh Railway Stations

Posted On: 22 NOV 2019 5:34PM by PIB Delhi

‘Adarsh’ Station Scheme has been started since 2009-10 and presently, upgradation of Railway stations are taken under ‘Adarsh Station Scheme’. Since then, 1253 stations have been identified for development under ‘Adarsh Station Scheme’ out of which 1149 stations so far have been developed under ‘Adarsh Station Scheme’ and remaining stations are targeted to be developed by 2019-20.

Various passenger amenities which, inter-alia, include improvement to façade of the station building, retiring room, waiting room (with bathing facilities), separate waiting room for ladies, landscaping of circulating area, earmarked parking, signages, Pay & Use toilets, Foot Over Bridge, ramps at entry to station etc. are proposed to be provided at Railway stations which are identified for development under this scheme as per the respective category of the station and the works for which are funded under Plan Head ‘Passenger Amenities’.

Upgradation / modernization of stations on Indian Railways is a continuous and on-going process. Works for improvement of passenger amenities are undertaken depending upon need, volume of passenger traffic and inter-se priority, subject to availability of funds.

Zone-wise number of railway stations, which have been developed as Adarsh stations till date and number of railway stations to be developed are as under:

Zonal Railways

Indentified

Developed

(up to Oct 2019)

To be developed

Central Railway

72

69

3

Eastern Railway

278

276

2

East Central Railway

58

48

10

East Coast Railway

52

39

13

Northern Railway

124

105

19

North Central Railway

42

35

7

North Eastern Railway

53

43

10

Northeast Frontier Railway

91

90

1

North Western Railway

41

36

5

Southern Railway

128

113

15

South Central Railway

68

68

0

South Eastern Railway

86

86

0

South East Central Railway

28

25

3

South Western Railway

45

36

9

Western Railway

62

59

3

West Central Railway

25

21

4

Total

1253

1149

104

 

Funds are not allocated separately for Adarsh Station Scheme and the works are carried out under various passenger amenities works under Plan Head–53 ‘Passenger Amenities’. The details of funds allocated under Budgetary Sources for this Plan Head-53, over Indian Railways during the last three years namely 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 and current year are as under:

 

YEARS

ALLOCATION

2016-17

917.91 crs.

2017-18

1470.79 crs.

2018-19

2410.71 crs.

2019-20

3422.57 crs.

 

This information was given by the Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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