Overview

• Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the completed facility at New Delhi station, saying it will ease festival surges and enable passengers without reserved tickets to buy tickets on-site.
• The centre can accommodate about 7,000 people and is divided into pre-ticketing, ticketing (2,860 sq m) and post-ticketing (1,150 sq m) zones to separate passenger flows and reduce congestion.
• Key features include 22 ticket counters, 25 ATVMs, seating for 200, a 652 sq m toilet block, RO drinking water, 18 CCTV cameras, five luggage scanners and five door-frame metal detectors.
• An extension of Foot Over Bridge 1 now enables direct exit from platforms to the Metro station, improving last‑mile connectivity and easing platform crowding.
• For Diwali and Chhath travel, the ministry has notified 10,700 of over 12,000 planned trains, with 150 trains reserved for unreserved operations capable of 2,000 trips, and similar centres are slated for Anand Vihar, Ghaziabad, Varanasi and Ayodhya before expansion to 55 more stations.