Piyush Goyal shared glimpses of India’s first centralised AC railway terminal, have a look!

New Delhi: "Have a glimpse of the upcoming Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal in Bengaluru, Karnataka, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities" this Thursday afternoon tweet of Union Railway Minister Piyush Goel received over 12k likes on Twitter and generated more than 3.5k likes on his newly found love Koo. Guess why? For the simple reason that the beautifully designed, state of the art upcoming Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal at Bengaluru, which is India's first centralised AC railway terminal as well, just does not look like a railway terminal at all. This railway terminal looks to be one belonging to the New India.

Here is the Railway minister's viral tweet.

Tweeple reacting to the images said that they can't believe whether it's a Railway terminal or Airport terminal. The fully-covered railway station at the city's Byappanahalli area, named after Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya, is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and claims to have an airport-like aura. South Western Railways had earlier said that India's first centralised AC railway terminal would be ready by the end of February.

The Rs 314-crore station building of 4,200 sqm will cater to a daily footfall of 50,000. Currently, 164 pairs of express trains and 109 pairs of passenger trains are being operated from KSR Bengaluru City and Yeshwantpur terminals. A foot over-bridge along with two subways will link all platforms. The terminal has seven platforms apart from eight stabling lines and three pit lines. Every day, 50 trains can be operated from the terminal. The escalators and lifts will connect seven platforms to facilitate passenger movement.

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Sir M. Visvesvaraya terminal which is said to be designed in the lines of Bengaluru airport will have an upper-class waiting hall, a VIP lounge with a digital real-time passenger information system, and a lavish food court. It will also have its own water recycling plant of 4 lakh-litre capacity. The sprawling parking area would be able to accommodate as many as 250 cars, 900 two-wheelers, 50 autorickshaws, five BMTC buses and 20 cabs.

However, the work on the terminal, which was supposed to be completed in December 2018, missed several deadlines.

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