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The railways and urban development ministries have joined hands to redevelop stations and adjoining areas along railway lines running through smart cities in a bid to provide better amenities and easy access for passengers. They will also develop residential and commercial spaces around railway stations.The initiative will be first implemented in the 100 cities included in the Smart City Mission and later extended to more than 500 cities under two schemes—the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, and the Heritage Infrastructure Development and Augmentation Yojana. The two ministries signed on 19 October 2016 a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which 10 cities would be taken up initially for redevelopment with the participation of the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC). These are: Sarai Rohilla, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaipur, Kota, Thane, Margao, Tirupati and Puducherry.