The Railway land Development Authority (RlDA) has prepared an action plan for fast tracking the development of 75 Multi-Functional Complexes (MFC) sites in the current year for which bidding process is being initiated in phases.
So far, RlDA has invited nine bids in the current year for development of 43 MFCs in Northern, Western and Southern India. Prominent stations are Dehradun, Ujjain, Vasai Road, Anand, Somnath, lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Gulbarga, Vijayawada, Amritsar, Amethi and Chandigarh.
RlDA also a pre-bid conference at Hyderabad on Thursday to invite bids for commercial development of MFCs at eight stations in cities of tourist and religious interest in Andhra Pradesh, namely Dharmavaram, Karimnagar, Kurnool Town, Nellore, Nizamabad, Vijayawada, Zahirabad and Kacheguda.
These eight centralised complexes will have the facilities for rail users such as shopping, food stalls/restaurants, book stalls, ATMs, medicines and variety stores, budget hotels, parking etc.