Inauguration of Passenger amenities at Chhapra Station
● Foundation stone for second entry gate- Estimated cost for Second Entry Gate is Rs. 24.62 Crores.
● Wi Fi Facility at Chhapra Station- The facility for the visitors & rail users of Chhapra Railway Station is being provided by RailTel in partnership with Google with no cost to Railway for providing high speed state of the art world class internet experience to the commuters. The Railwire wi-fi service is currently available at 127 stations.
● The facility will offer high-speed broadband like experience to users Wi-Fi facility is being provided at A1 & A category Railway station.
● Provision of escalators and modification of platforms at Chhapra station.
● Chhapra station is an ‘A-1’ category station on Gorakhpur cantt. and Chhapra Katcheri section of Varanasi Division, NER.
● The estimated cost of provision of escalators at Chhapra station is Rs. 7277052/- each escalator (total Rs.7277052X2= Rs. 14554104/-).
Source : PIB