Renovated Kumbakonam railway station may be ready by December 2027

Southern Railway has undertaken a major redevelopment of Kumbakonam railway station to give it a complete makeover. The project is planned to be completed by December 2027.

The task of executing the ₹99.84-crore project has been entrusted to the Southern Railway Construction Organisation. Kumbakonam is the second station after Puducherry in Tiruchi Railway Division where a multi-crore station redevelopment project has been taken up.

A host of passenger amenities and other works, including increasing the existing platform length, form part of the project at Kumbakonam which is one of the top revenue generating stations in Tiruchi Railway Division.