The Hindu Business Line : Rlys re-invites bids for station modernisation

New Delhi April 10 The Indian Railways has cancelled its first station modernisation bidding process wherein it had qualified about seven companies based on technical evaluation. It has now issued a fresh tender — reinviting bids from consultants — for a relatively narrow scope of work.

Earlier, it had invited expressions of interest from consultants to advise Railways on the detailed design parameters, technical, financial and legal aspects of the process to be adopted for modernising the New Delhi Railway Station.

It had already technically qualified about seven firms for providing advisory services that include the Italy-based Grandi Stazioni SpA Via, Chinese firm East China Architecture and Design Institute and the UK headquartered Mott Mac Donald.

Modernisation Plan

However, the Planning Commission recently asked the Railways to define broad parameters only and let developers design the stations, as was followed in the airport modernisation plan.

Now, the Railways has invited bids from architects and technical consultants for "redevelopment of the station into world-class station through public-private partnership." The consultant would have to prepare the master plan for the station and surrounding areas involving station operating area, commercial developments, parking areas, inter-modal interchange, traffic dispersion, amongst others.

Legal Process

The Railways also plans to appoint another consultant to advise it on the legal and financial process to identify the developer.

The Railways has identified 19 stations to convert them into world-class ones. The tentative list includes New Delhi, Chhatrapati Shivaji Station (Mumbai), Howrah, Chennai Central, Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Mathura, Pune, Patna, Secunderabad and Thiruvananthapuram.

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