Mangaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the upgradation project of Mangaluru Junction Railway Station on August 6 via video conferencing. Dakshina Kannada MP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel said in a statement on Thursday that the central government has decided to upgrade the ‘Mangaluru Junction railway station‘ to international standards under the ‘Amrut Bharat Station Scheme‘.
The Prime Minister will lay its foundation stone through video conferencing. Kateel also thanked the Prime Minister and Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for taking the initiative to upgrade the station. He recalled that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her 2023–24 budget speech had announced that Mangaluru Junction, Mangaluru Central, Bantwal and Subramaniam railway stations in Dakshina Kannada district would be upgraded under the ‘Amrit Bharat Station‘ scheme.
The Mangaluru junction station will be upgraded at a cost of Rs 19.32 crore, Kateel said. Other railway stations under this project will be developed soon. (Agency)
