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“With this decision, Indian Railways has given the responsibility for integrated management of Pune station to IRSDC. While some believed that privatisation would have an adverse effect on Indian Railway staffers, the perception was not right, said Kaur. Privatisation of station management will make passenger services better, said Kalpana Kaur, director of the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC), after the agency took over management of the Pune Railway Station and handed it over to city-based BVG group on Thursday. Besides Pune, the railway stations that will be outsourced under the pilot project — Integrated Station Management — include Bengaluru, Secunderabad, Anand Vihar (in New Delhi) and Chandigarh. “The decision has been taken by Indian Railways to ensure better facilities for passengers..