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Railway station facelift likely to get a Chinese touch

Railways estimates programme will benefit more than 100 cities and 16 million passengers a day

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The scope for raising either passenger fares or freight rates is severely limited by the stagnation in traffic

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Chinese companies might no longer be considered unfavourable by New Delhi for infrastructure project developments. 

The neighbour across the Himalayas might soon develop a railway station in one of the metro cities. The station would be allotted under a bilateral route. Apart from China, a proposal by the Indian Railways to allot railway stations on bilateral routes to Germany and France are also under consideration of the ministry of external affairs. “We are in talks with China, France and Germany to take up a few stations in metro cities. The proposal is up for clearance from the ministry of external affairs,”