Indian Railways has fast tracked the construction work on building world-class stations and the projects are already under implementation at stations like Madhya Pradesh's Habibganj and Gujarat's Surat among others. Apart from this, the railway has also planned to develop 10 stations by equipping them with airport-like facilities entailing an investment of ₹5,000 crore in areas like Lucknow's Charbagh, Gomti Nagar, Delhi's Sarai Rohilla, Kota, Thane, Mandgaon, Ernakulam, Nellore, Tirupati, and Puducherry, where the work is currently in full swing. The National Building Construction Company (NBCC) has prepared the design for the redevelopment of stations and that the redevelopment work of the Charbagh station is expected to get completed by 2020 at an approximate cost of ₹600 crore. These stations will have facilities like malls, shops, food plaza and office spaces besides, and NBCC is also considering of building affordable houses on the land in and around the stations. It may be recalled that the Ultra-modern facilities with integrated Buildings Management systems and Green Building features shall generate positive energy into building and under the program, the railway has planned to develop around 400 railway stations at an estimated investment of over ₹1 lakh crore.
