Kacheguda Railway Station illumination to be switched on by Kishan Reddy
Union Minister of Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy will dedicate to the nation the ₹2.23 crore facade lighting of Kacheguda Railway station on Monday.
General Manager of South Central Railway Arun Kumar Jain and other senior officials would be in attendance. The station consists of five platforms, with an average of 103 trains passing through per day and an average footfall of 45,000 per day, and has completed more than 100 years. The lighting proposal was sanctioned by the Tourism Ministry and work executed by the Hyderabad Division to highlight the Indo-Saracenic/ Indo Gothic architecture, according to a press release.
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