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British-Era secret tunnel found inside Delhi Legislative Assembly, connects to Red Fort

  A tunnel-like structure was discovered at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Speaking to ANI, Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the legislative assembly to Red Fort and was used by the Britishers to avoid reprisal while moving freedom fighters.  Goel further informed that the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which was used as Central Legislative Assembly after shifting of capital from Kolkata to Delhi in 1912, was turned into a court in 1926 and Britishers used this tunnel to bring freedom fighters to the court.  "When I became an MLA in 1993, there was hearsay about a tunnel present here that goes till Red Fort and I tried to search for its history. But there was no clarity over it," he stated.  "Now we have got the mouth of the tunnel but we are not digging it further as all the paths of the tunnel have been destroyed due to metro projects and sewer installations," he added.  The assembly speaker added that i...
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India's Biggest Railway Station & twin Towers to Come up in New Delhi, estimated cost of around ₹14,000 crores

                                                     The facelift and redevelopment of New Delhi Railway Station will be started in 2022 and will include two huge domes for platforms, 40-floor twin towers, a massive parking lot and 9 new fly overs.

 In the first phase, the railway development body plans to construct a 70 metres high dome-shaped building (infinity tower), 40-storey twin towers and business district, providing office and commercial space, multilevel car-parking on either side of the station ( Paharganj and Ajmeri Gate) for 5,000 vehicles, retail hub, pedestrian boulevard, etc. It will also upgrade the road network around the station.

                                     The station would be developed on a Design-Build Finance Operate Transfer (DBFOT) model for a concession period of 60 years with a capital expenditure of around 680 million dollars. The Master Plan area includes around 120 hectares, and the Project's first phase consists of 88 hectares.

                                                               "While the development at the station will provide state-of-the-art facilities to passengers, we have also made a detailed plan to decongest the area. We will invite the RFP for the first phase of works, which involves station development, commercial centres, which will begin by September-end or early October, and we plan to start the construction work by next year," RLDA vice-chairman Ved Parkash Dudeja told Hindustan Times.

                                               The revamp of the New Delhi station, which handles approximately 450,000 passengers daily (160-170 million passengers annually), has been going on since 2007. Dudeja said the initial plan was not implemented as it required shutting down half of the station for three years and the other half for another three years.

                                             
A similar transformation is being planned for CST Terminus which is Central Railway's biggest station and a similar amount has been allotted for its redevelopment.
Location: Delhi, India

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