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Kishan Reddy Reviews Telangana Railway Station Redevelopment Projects

Kishan Reddy Reviews Telangana Railway Station Redevelopment Projects
Kishan Reddy Inspects Station Redevelopment Works in Mahbubnagar · deccanchronicle.com

Minister G. Kishan Reddy visited four railway stations in Telangana to check their improvement work.

The stations are Sri Bala Brahmeswara Jogulamba Halt, Gadwal, Mahbubnagar and Jadcherla.

They are getting new buildings, platforms, lifts, lighting, parking areas and foot overbridges.

The four projects together cost ₹125.38 crore.

Work at Jogulamba Halt is almost finished.

The minister said 40 stations across Telangana are being upgraded through the Amrit Stations program.

He also said many other railway projects worth nearly ₹50,000 crore are underway.

Three planned high-speed rail corridors would connect Hyderabad with Chennai, Bengaluru and Pune via Mumbai.

These projects are expected to make travel easier and support industry.

Key facts

Stations inspected
Sri Bala Brahmeswara Jogulamba Halt, Gadwal, Mahbubnagar and Jadcherla
Investment in four stations
₹125.38 crore
Telangana stations being redeveloped
40 stations
Total redevelopment cost
More than ₹2,000 crore
Other railway projects underway
Nearly ₹50,000 crore worth of new lines, doubling, tripling and quadrupling works
New trains introduced
100 passenger and express trains in Telangana over the past decade
Proposed high-speed corridors
Hyderabad–Chennai via Vijayawada, Hyderabad–Bengaluru and Hyderabad–Pune via Mumbai

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