Presenting the Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today, the Railway Minister Kumari Mamata Banerjee said that about 50 stations of the country including Ahmedabad and Porbandar are to be developed into world class stations with international level facilities. These stations would be developed through innovative financing and in Public Private Partnership mode.

Apart from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad and Porbandar, other 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), Bhopal, Habibganj, Gaya Jn., Agra Cantt., Mathura Jn., Chandigarh, Kolkata, New Jalpaiguri, Majerhat, Mangalore, Anand Vihar, Brijwasan, Ajmer Jn., and Puri.