The Indian Railways has decided to develop ~ 50 stations as world class stations with international level facilities. These will be developed, through innovative financing and in public private partnership mode (PPP).
Some of these stations are CST Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Howrah, Sealdah, Bhubaneswar, New Delhi, Lucknow, Varanasi, Amritsar, Kanpur, Guwahati, Jaipur, Chennai Central, Tiruvananthapuram Central, Secunderabad, Tirupati, Bangalore City, Baiyapanahali (Bangalore), Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Habibganj, Gaya Jn., Agra Cantt., Mathura Jn., Chandigarh, Kolkata, New Jalpaiguri, Majerhat, Mangalore, Porbandar, Anand Vihar, Bijwasan, Ajmer Jn. and Puri.
Likely candidates for the same are – L&T, GVK, GMR, Reliance Infrastructure.
There is a growing demand of wagons in Railways. During the year FY10 Railways have planned to acquire 18,000 wagons up 64% YoY under rolling stock programme as against 11,000 wagons in FY09. Positive for BEML, Titagarh Wagons and Texmaco
The Dedicated Freight Corridor project on the Western and Eastern routes is important for creating infrastructure in the country and the Railways has named it the “Diamond Rail Corridors” project. Massive project which could benefit Kalindee Rail Nirman, BEML and L&T. This will also imply orders for BHEL, ABB, Siemens and Crompton Greaves.