Railway Minister approved the plan for developing Passenger Holding Areas at various Railway Stations

Railway Minister approved the plan for developing passenger holding areas at various railway stations. This decision was taken looking at the success of passenger holding area at New Delhi Station.

New Delhi station could smoothly handle the extremely heavy rush of Diwali and Chhath with the help of holding area. The holding area was completed within four months.

The holding areas will be in modular design. They will be constructed considering the local conditions.

Railway Minister directed that all the holding areas should be constructed well before 2026 festival season.

List of 76 Stations is attached herewith –

S.No.	Zonal Railway	Name of Railway Station	No.
1	Central	Mumbai CSMT, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Nagpur, Nashik Road, Pune, Dadar	6
2	Eastern	Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Bhagalpur, Jasidih	5
3	East Central	Patna, Danapur, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Darbhanga, Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay	6
4	East Coast	Bhubaneshwar, Visakhapatnam, Puri	3
5	Northern	New Delhi, Anand Vihar Terminal, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Jammu Tawi, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, Ludhiana, Lucknow (NR), Varanasi, Ayodhya Dham, Haridwar	12
6	North Central	Kanpur, Virangana Lakshmi Bai Jhansi, Mathura, Agra Cantt.	4
7	North Eastern	Gorakhpur, Banaras, Chhapra, Lucknow Jn. (NER)	4
8	Northeast Frontier	Guwahati, Katihar	2
9	North Western	Jaipur, Gandhi Nagar Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Ringus	5
10	Southern	M G R Chennai Central, Chennai Egmore, Coimbatore Jn., Ernakulam Jn.	4
11	South Central	Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Guntur, Kacheguda, Rajahmundry	6
12	South Eastern	Ranchi, Tata, Shalimar	3
13	South East Central	Raipur	1
14	South Western	SMVT Bengaluru, Yesvantpur, Mysuru, Krishnarajapuram	4
15	Western	Mumbai Central, Bandra Terminus, Udhna, Surat, Ahmedabad, Ujjain, Vadodara, Sehore	8
16	West Central	Bhopal, Jabalpur, Kota	3
		Total	76

SCR BZA PR No.171
Date: 30th October 2025