Maintenance of KSR Bengaluru railway station will go back to SWR
The Hindu
Railway Board had wound up Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited
In the wake of the Railway Board closing Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC), the maintenance of Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station at Majestic in Bengaluru will go back to South Western Railway (SWR).
The IRSDC had been maintaining the station since 2019. In July, it had opened a tunnel aquarium outside the station, and in September had invited bids to develop ‘Rail Arcade’. The project was aimed at providing commercial, leisure and entertainment spaces for passengers and other customers (non-passengers) at the station.
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