India, April 15 -- Nearly a year after Parel railway station was remodelled to "redefine what a station can be" under the Amrit Bharat scheme, the Central Railway is now tearing down the very structures it had built at a cost of Rs.19 crore.

State-of-the-art structures and amenities will be demolished to make way for two new railway lines that will pass through Parel station and link up with the proposed Parel Terminus, to be built at the site of the railway workshop nearby at a cost of Rs.500 crore.

Although the new terminus has been in the works for a decade, Parel station was selected, inexplicably, for a major upgrade, along with three other suburban stations, as Amrit Bharat stations. The Amrit Bharat scheme, under the Union railwa...