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As per the plan, giant digital screens would be placed at major railway stations in India to showcase real-time passenger information while also displaying digital advertisements, thereby providing $4 to the $4.
The $4 is considering this platform to raise funds from non-ticketing sources, and several top global firms like Google and Microsoft, along with Reliance, have expressed their interests in the project.
In the first phase,
Some railway stations like Old Delhi, Gorakhpur, Gwalior and Varanasi are already having large and small digital screens, following the proof of concept (PoC) contract for RDN, which was awarded by the $4.
For the cloud-controlled screens, state-run railways undertaking called $4 will provide the optical fibre cable network.