PM Modi inaugurates 103 railway stations under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated 103 redeveloped railway stations, spread across 86 districts in 18 states and Union Territories, under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.
He also flagged off a new weekly train between Bandra Terminus in Mumbai and Bikaner station in Rajasthan.
After praying at the Karni Mata temple in Deshnoke, around 30 km away from Bikaner and nearly 200 km from the International Border with Pakistan, PM Modi inaugurated the redeveloped Deshnoke railway station, and virtually inaugurated 102 other stations.
Of the 103 stations redeveloped at a cost of over Rs 1,100 crore, 19 are in Uttar Pradesh, 18 in Gujarat, 15 in Maharashtra, nine in Tamil Nadu, eight in Rajasthan, six in Madhya Pradesh, five each in Chhattisgarh and Karnataka, three each in Jharkhand, Telangana and West Bengal, two each in Bihar and Kerala and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Puducherry.