NHAI floats tenders for ₹1,053-cr intermodal station

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has floated the tender for phase-I of the intermodal station (IMS) at Ajni, entailing an investment of ₹1,053.38 crore. The project will be completed in 2.5 years and the contractor will have to maintain the facility for 10 years. NHAI will get its design approved by the Central Railway (CR) on whose land the project will come up. The IMS will have connectivity between the long-distance buses, city buses, railways, metro and indirect link with the city airport with parking space for long-distance buses, and it will act as a departure and arrival point for private buses. When the IMS is ready, railways will be asked to convert Ajni into the main railway station of the city and the Nagpur Metro's Congress Nagar station will be connected to the IMS with a foot over bridge (FOB) so that the travellers can reach the city airport directly. The contractor will have to build the main IMS building, a new railway station building, FOBs, subways, internal roads and new railway quarters. NHAI will build new quarters in lieu of these and the IMS will have space for parking 590 cars in the main building and the ground floor will remain reserved for arrivals.