PM to launch 550 Amrit Bharat stations on February 26th

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is soon going to lay the foundation stone of 550 Amrit Bharat station on Februray 26^th. The Indian railway has advised all its zonal PR Offices to ensure plaque for the event are designed in Sanskrit language as well apart from Hindi, English and other regional languages. These stations will boost up the facilities by developing rooftop plazas and city centers, with an allocated budget of Rs. 40,000 crore.

The prime minister will also lay the foundation stone of nearly 1,500 road overbridges and underbridges across different states during a function that will be conducted virtually at over 2,000 railway stations. During the event, prizes will also be distributed to approximately 50,000 school students who took part in speech, essay, and poetry writing contests on the theme "2047 - Viksit Bharat ki Railway," organized by the Indian Railways across 4,000 schools. The PM will join the event through video conference. More than 4 lakh students participated in various competitions, and divisional railway managers and senior railway officers will award around 50,000 prizes during the event. 

The Amrit Bharat Station Scheme has launched to develop the infrastructure of Indian railway. Currently, the scheme envisages to take-up the upgradation and modernization of 1275 stations over the Indian Railway.

A master plan has already been approved and the plan will be implemented in phases to improve the amenities at the stations like improvement of station access, circulating areas, waiting halls, toilets, lift/escalators as necessary, cleanliness, free Wi-Fi, kiosks for local products through schemes like ‘One Station One Product’, better passenger information systems, Executive Lounges, nominated spaces for business meetings, landscaping and others keeping in view the necessity at each station. The scheme also chalked out plans for building executive lounges, nominated spaces for business meetings and landscaping, keeping in view the necessity at each station.

The buildings will also be reconstructed or refurbished , integrating station with both sides of the city, multimodal integration, amenities for Divyangjans, sustainable and environment-friendly solutions, provision of ballastless tracks, ‘Roof Plazas’ as per necessity, phasing and feasibility and creation of city centres at the station in the long term.

The scheme envisages a gradual shift to sustainable and environment-friendly solutions, as per availability of funds and condition of existing assets. it will also include high-level platforms (760-840 millimetres) at all categories of stations. According to the scheme, the length of the platforms shall generally be 600 metres.

Till now, 1,318 stations have been selected under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, based on the received proposal from zonal railways and stations located in major cities and towns.