02-07-2005, 08:27 AM
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Deepak Kumar Jha/ New Delhi
The Northern Railway is all geared up to give newlook to the New Delhi Railway Station before the flavour of Commonwealth Games envelopes the Capital. A new 20-storeyed building with commercial complex, VIP lounge, food plazas, a foreign exchange centre and an International Tourist Bureau will come up at the Ajmeri Gate Terminal besides the Metro station. Â
<b>The station building will be one of the modernised station in the country providing sophisticated passenger's lounge catering to the needs of elite class</b>. Platform numbers 12,11 and 10 from the Ajmeri Gate terminal are earmarked for Rajdhanis and Shatabdi Express. So far this side of the station had all temporary arrangements projecting a dingy look. The other terminal of the station is the Pahar Ganj terminal which has become very congested.
The first floor of the building will be equipped with superior signages, ATM and foreign exchange counters and also deluxe pay and use toilets and lounges.
The International Tourist Bureau office will also be located on the first floor which is likely to full air-conditioned.
"With the upcoming metro railway station in the vicinity, the increase in passenger demand in terms of more space and convenient waiting area, it was decided to build a new railway station building on the Ajmeri Gate Terminal Side," said DPS Sandhu, chief public relations officer. The construction work for the Rs 20 crore project is likely to begin in a couple of months and will be completed in a year's time.
The building will also have commercial complex like few stations in the country. Enough facility will be provided for the convenience of the physically challenged persons.
The Ajmeri Gate building will have 6000 square meters area of which 3000 square metres will be available on the ground floor and another 3000 square metres on the first floor.<b> The facility will include 20 current ticket booking counters, a ticket booking hall, waiting halls with facilities for handicapped passengers, cloak rooms, refreshment rooms, food plazas, upper class and general waiting room, bookstalls, shops and VIP lounge.</b>
The New Delhi Railway station was built in 1922 when New Delhi area was coming up. Construction material was brought to the door step of Connaught Place so that it could be transported easily while Lutenys Delhi was still being built. As a natural development of the circumstances, this station later became an important passenger railway station handling about hundreds of trains and 25 lakh passengers per day.
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Deepak Kumar Jha/ New Delhi
The Northern Railway is all geared up to give newlook to the New Delhi Railway Station before the flavour of Commonwealth Games envelopes the Capital. A new 20-storeyed building with commercial complex, VIP lounge, food plazas, a foreign exchange centre and an International Tourist Bureau will come up at the Ajmeri Gate Terminal besides the Metro station. Â
<b>The station building will be one of the modernised station in the country providing sophisticated passenger's lounge catering to the needs of elite class</b>. Platform numbers 12,11 and 10 from the Ajmeri Gate terminal are earmarked for Rajdhanis and Shatabdi Express. So far this side of the station had all temporary arrangements projecting a dingy look. The other terminal of the station is the Pahar Ganj terminal which has become very congested.
The first floor of the building will be equipped with superior signages, ATM and foreign exchange counters and also deluxe pay and use toilets and lounges.
The International Tourist Bureau office will also be located on the first floor which is likely to full air-conditioned.
"With the upcoming metro railway station in the vicinity, the increase in passenger demand in terms of more space and convenient waiting area, it was decided to build a new railway station building on the Ajmeri Gate Terminal Side," said DPS Sandhu, chief public relations officer. The construction work for the Rs 20 crore project is likely to begin in a couple of months and will be completed in a year's time.
The building will also have commercial complex like few stations in the country. Enough facility will be provided for the convenience of the physically challenged persons.
The Ajmeri Gate building will have 6000 square meters area of which 3000 square metres will be available on the ground floor and another 3000 square metres on the first floor.<b> The facility will include 20 current ticket booking counters, a ticket booking hall, waiting halls with facilities for handicapped passengers, cloak rooms, refreshment rooms, food plazas, upper class and general waiting room, bookstalls, shops and VIP lounge.</b>
The New Delhi Railway station was built in 1922 when New Delhi area was coming up. Construction material was brought to the door step of Connaught Place so that it could be transported easily while Lutenys Delhi was still being built. As a natural development of the circumstances, this station later became an important passenger railway station handling about hundreds of trains and 25 lakh passengers per day.
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