Vertical Transportation on Plan for India Railway Upgrade

Paromita Roy, JGM, Indian Railway Stations Development Corp., presented a blueprint of the upgrade plan for the Panchkula-Chandigarh railway station to Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on June 23, The Tribune reports. The plan includes a two-story waiting lounge, 12 escalators and six lifts. The 493.6 acres available will play an important role in the development, allowing for a number of roads and railway underbridges to be constructed to help facilitate traffic between Chandigarh and Panchkula in India. Tenders for the project will be floated in August and the project is expected to take three years to complete.