Jpr rly station will be modernised at cost of `717 cr: Rail Min

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday that the Jaipur railway station will be modernised at a cost of Rs 717 crore.

Vaishnaw was delivering a lecture on “Contribution of Railways in India’s Infrastructural Development”, organised by Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Smriti Samaroh Samiti at Dhankya near Jaipur.

Referring to various station redevelopment projects in the country, he said the railways is carrying out the exercise taking into account both heritage and development. Under the modernisation plan, the Jaipur railway station will be upgraded with high-end facilities at a cost of Rs 717 crore. The tenders for the work have been issued, he said.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done the work of spreading India’s skills all over the world with the scheme of ‘One Station-One Product’,” he said.

Instead of foreign technology, PM Modi expressed his faith in In- dian engineering and Vande Bharat trains were manufactured in

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the contribution of the railways in building India is immense the country, he said, adding Jaipur will be connected with a Vande

Bharat train soon.

Vaishnaw also remembered Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay on his 55th death anniversary on Saturday. Remembering Pandit Deendayal, Rajya Sabha MP Ghanshyam Tiwari said that it was his good fortune that he visited Deendayal and also heard him. Tiwari said that works like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan were done during Atal’s tenure and now Modi’s govt is doing great work for the poor.