Free WiFi at Secunderabad Railway Station

Free WiFi at Secunderabad Railway Station
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The Secunderabad Railway Station has become the first railway station in South Central Railway (SCR) and the sixth in the Indian Railways to offer free WiFi to passengers. The facility was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya in the presence of IT minister KT Rama Rao and SCR General Manager PK Srivastava on Tuesday.

  • Old Gandhi Hospital land can be used to develop Sec’bad Railway station on international standards: Dattatreya
  • Hyderabad would be WiFi enabled by year-end: KTR

The Secunderabad Railway Station has become the first railway station in South Central Railway (SCR) and the sixth in the Indian Railways to offer free WiFi to passengers. The facility was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya in the presence of IT minister KT Rama Rao and SCR General Manager PK Srivastava on Tuesday.


Users can access WiFi on all the 10 platforms including the concourse area through strategically commissioned 96 wireless access points. The facility is accessible on smartphones/tablets/laptops (with WiFi) free of charge for 30 minutes. At the event, which also marked the commencement of the ‘Passenger and Customer Facilitation Fortnight’ celebrations, KT Rama Rao announced that “Hyderabad would be WiFi enabled by year-end.”

(From left) P K Srivastava, general manager, SCR, Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and IT Minister  K T Rama Rao, at the launch of the WiFi facility at Secunderabad Railway Station on Tuesday. Photo: Prabhu Das

Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya proposed that the old Gandhi Hospital land could be handed over to SCR to increase the circulating area so that the long-pending project of developing the station on international standards is taken up. Dattatreya said that by next year the pending works of Wagon Coach Factory at Kazipet would also be taken up.


The union government has earmarked one lakh crore rupees for making India digitised. Later, PK Srivastava interacted with rail passengers and sought their opinion on services such as cleanliness, catering and security being rendered by SCR.

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