The Indian Railways has initiated a competition to select designs for redeveloping 600 major stations across the country. The SRIJAN (Station Rejuvenation through Joint Action) has been launched by the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC), an Indian Railways’ joint venture company in charge of the rail station redevelopment project.
Anyone can sent in their proposals to develop a station of their choice. The winners of the competition will receive letters of commendations and shortlisted participants may get an opportunity to associate professionally with the IRSDC. The last date for submitting entries is 26 March. To shorten the process of engagement of qualified and experienced companies for design of stations, the IRSDC has already carried out one round of empanelment of agencies for design of stations.
“It’s a first-of-its-kind crowd-sourcing competition open to all to invite innovative, scalable, low-cost-and-high-impact ideas from stakeholders for upgrading the look and feel of the railway stations and thereby transform the functional utility, raise the revenue generation capacity and lower operations and maintenance cost of railway stations,” IRSDC Managing Director and Chief Executive officer Sanjeev Kumar Lohia said.
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