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Odisha, ECoR sign MoU to develop Bhubaneswar railway station
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Sep, 2019
The Odisha government and the East Cost Railway (ECoR) here on Thursday
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Rs 840 crore
Bhubaneswar railway station multi-modal hub project.
ECoR
Divisional Railway Manager Sashikant Singh signed the MoU with Premchand
Choudhury, Vice-Chairman, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA).
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was present on the
occasion, while Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik attended it through
video-conferencing.
"Transforming Bhubaneswar railway station
into a world-class station and multi-modal hub will be one of the
biggest milestone for the state," said Patnaik.
The BDA will be
the nodal agency for planning, designing and executing the project for
providing seamless connectivity to commuters. Surbana Jurong, a
Singapore-based international design consultant, has been roped in for
the project.
The hub and the public infrastructure would be ready in 30 months, said the Chief Minister.
The
infrastructure component, includes a new terminal building for the
station, city bus terminal, car park, dedicated pickup and drop off
lanes for taxi, auto-rickshaws and other vehicles besides theatre, art
and children's plaza and food courts.
As its core, the projects
will have an iconic city square with a centrally-located high Axe tower,
providing mixed use of development like commercial, retail, hotel,
service apartments.
It would benefit Odias as well tourists
visiting the state, he said. Once ready the project would boost tourism
and also become a catalyst for development in the state, said Pradhan.
While
the public infrastructure will be developed in the engineering,
procurement and construction mode at a cost of Rs 300 crore, the
mixed-use real estate component, to be developed on the PPP model, will
cost around Rs 540 crore.
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