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Passenger Holding Areas, Permanent Yatri Suvidha kendras: After the successful implementation of a permanent passenger holding area at New Delhi railway station (NDLS), Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday approved the plan for developing such facilities at various railway stations. Initially, the Ministry of Railways aims to construct permanent passenger holding areas at 75 more stations after NDLS.
The national transporter has targeted to complete the construction of permanent holding areas before 2026 festival season. At New Delhi railway station, the permanent holding area was completed within four months.
“Railway Minister approved the plan for developing passenger holding areas at various railway stations. This decision was taken looking at the success of passenger holding area at New Delhi station.
New Delhi station could smoothly handle the extremely heavy rush of Diwali and Chhath with the help of holding area,” the Ministry of Railways said in a statement.
| Serial number | Zonal railway | Name of railway stations | Permanent Holding Areas numbers |
| 1 | Central Railway | Mumbai CSMT, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Nagpur, Nashik Road, Pune, Dadar | 6 |
| 2 | Eastern Railway | Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Bhagalpur, Jasidih | 5 |
| 3 | East Central Railway | Patna, Danapur, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Darbhanga, Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay | 6 |
| 4 | East Coast Railway | Bhubaneshwar, Vishakhapatnam, Puri | 3 |
| 5 | Northern Railway | New Delhi, Anand Vihar Terminal, Hazarat Nizamuddin, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Jammu Tawi, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, Ludhiana, Lucknow (NR), Varanasi, Ayodhya Dham, Haridwar | 12 |
| 6 | North Central Railway | Kanpur, Virangana Lakshmi Bai Jhansi, Mathura, Agra Cantt. | 4 |
| 7 | North Eastern Railway | Gorakhpur, Banaras, Chhapra, Lucknow Jn. (NER) | 4 |
| 8 | Northeast Frontier Railway | Guwahati, Katihar | 2 |
| 9 | North Western Railway | Jaipur, Gandhi Nagar Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Ringus | 5 |
| 10 | Southern Railway | M G R Chennai Central, Chennai Egmore, Coimbatore Jn., Ernakulam Jn. | 4 |
| 11 | South Central Railway | Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Guntur, Kacheguda, Rajankundry | 6 |
| 12 | South Eastern Railway | Ranchi, Tata, Shalimar | 3 |
| 13 | South East Central Railway | Raipur | 1 |
| 14 | South Western Railway | SMVT Bengaluru, Yesvantpur, Mysuru, Krishnarajapuram | 4 |
| 15 | Western Railway | Mumbai Central, Bandra Terminus, Udhna, Surat, Ahmedabad, Ujjain, Vadodara, Sehore | 8 |
| 16 | West Central Railway | Bhopal, Jabalpur, Kota | 3 |
(Source: Ministry of Railways)
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