We are trying that Gwalior railway station gets renovated by end of 2025: Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia

Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], August 3 (ANI): Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia thanked Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for giving priority to the Gwalior railway station and said that efforts were being made to ensure that the Gwalior railway station gets renovated by the end of 2025.

Jyotiraditya Scindia said, “I conducted a survey of the Gwalior railway station. There are four platforms currently. Two additional platforms will be constructed. A modern concourse will be constructed. We will bring a confluence between modernity and antiquity. I thank the Railway Minister for giving priority to the Gwalior railway station. We are trying to ensure that the railway station gets renovated by the end of 2025.”

He said that he has conducted a survey of the ISBT (Inter-State Bus Terminal).

Scindia further said, “It is a project worth 60 crores. 52 bus stands which include a parking facility for 85 buses will be constructed. The bus stand will have proper seating arrangements for the passengers. Shops will be built.”

He added that he had also conducted a survey for elevated road project.

The Minister said, “We are trying to complete phase 1 of this project by this year or at the beginning of next year. Gwalior is moving in the direction of development and modernity.”

He added that Gwalior-Agra expressway has got approval costing Rs 4,600 crores,

“Elevated road in being built at Rs 16,00 crores, multi-level car parking, government press, project to bring water from Chambal at Rs 1400 crores. Projects worth Rs 15,000 crores are in progress in Gwalior,” the Union minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) said.

Earlier, the union minister further extended gratitude to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for the road development in the Gwalior region.

“I want to thank Nitin Gadkari Ji, under the leadership of PM Modi, he has done an impossible thing for Gwalior be it elevated road or Gwalior-Agra expressway. The current two-lane road Gwalior to Agra will remain as it is, we are building an alternate 6-lane expressway. The present road from Agra to Gwalior is 120 km long which takes two and a half hours but now after the construction of the expressway, it will be only 88 km long i.e. it will be about 25% less due to which we will be able to cover the distance within one hour 10 mins,” he added.

Eight bridges, six flyovers will be constructed on the six-lane expressway worth Rs 4613 crores. The work of land acquisition has also been started in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Both state governments are working with the central government for it, Scindia said.

Efforts will be made to complete the expressway in the next two and half years, he added.