Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Friday announced the redevelopment of New Delhi Railway Station in public-private partnership mode to provide state-of-the-art passenger amenities, road infrastructure and an iconic building to meet future traffic demand. The minister informed the Rajya Sabha about this.
Union Minister said, ‘Proposal for redevelopment of New Delhi’ railway The station, to be taken up on Public-Private Partnership mode, aims to provide state-of-the-art passenger amenities, road infrastructure and an iconic building to the station to meet the future traffic demand.” Vaishnav replied to a query from Mango. Aam Aadmi Party MP Sushil Kumar Gupta about the government’s proposal to renovate the New Delhi Railway Station.
Asked whether the station has received environmental clearance from the government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), the Union minister said railway station projects have been exempted from obtaining prior environmental clearance subject to certain conditions.
However, the Union Minister also said that “permission has been given to cut trees”.
The second part of the budget session of Parliament, which began on March 14, will end on April 8. The first part of the session ran from 31 January to 11 February.
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