Escalators, lifts, waiting lounge on blueprint of Chandigarh railway station upgrade

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 23

After the Union Minister of Railways, Piyush Goyal, gave a nod to the development of the Panchkula-Chandigarh railway station as a world-class facility, Paromita Roy JGM, Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation, presented a blueprint of the plan before Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta today.

Roy told the Speaker that the 493.6 acres available here would play an important role in the development of the project. To facilitate traffic between the two cities, a number of new roads and RUBs would be constructed, she said.

Apart from a two-storey waiting lounge, 12 escalators and six lifts would be installed for the convenience of the passengers. For the Rs215-crore project, tenders would be floated in August and was likely to be completed in three years, she said.

“Those who have to travel between Chandigarh and Panchkula daily for their work would be largely benefited from this project,” she said.

Gian Chand Gupta assured Roy that he would soon take up the matter with the Chandigarh Administration and seek cooperation.

‘Add Panchkula’s name to station’

On April 14, Gupta had written to the Union Minister of Railways for a world-class Panchkula-Chandigarh railway station. He said he would soon write to the Ministry of Railways to add Panchkula to the name of the railway station. He said: “The station is built on the land of Panchkula and in the proposed project, its expansion is also to be done on the Panchkula side”.