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Lok Sabha
Indian Railways now plan to build budget hotels at selected locations. Sites have been identified for budget hotels at six places viz. Madurai, Bangalore, Bhopal (Habibganj), Chandigarh, Sealdah and Secunderabad. Indian Railways are not constructing luxury hotels.
Indian Railways are already in the hospitality sector and presently operating Rail Yatri Niwas and retiring rooms.
There is not specific proposal under consideration to construct market complex and malls on Railway land. However, commercial development of land undertaken by Railway includes various end uses of land determined through market feasibility study of the site(s). Such end use of land may also include marketing complex, malls etc.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri R. Velu in written reply to a question by S/Shri Ravi Prakash Verma and Anandrao V. Adsul in Lok Sabha today.
BSC/HK/CK-122/05
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