Minister for Cooperation, Sellur K. Raju inaugurated Rs 10-crore worth development works at the Madurai Railway Junction, including the long-pending foot overbridge near the circulating area. He inaugurated it in the presence of Madurai MP R. Gopalakrishnan, and Additional Divisional Railway Manager Lalit Kumar Mansukhani and other railway officials. The Divisional Railway Manager, Neenu Ittyerah, said that major modifications had been made in expanding the circulating area, providing wide pedestrian plaza, separate entry and parking for autorickshaws, expanded bus bays. Among the new facilities are 16 refurbished retiring rooms at a cost of Rs 1.8 crore, a new passenger lift at platform no. 1 at a cost of Rs 30 lakh, re-modelled concourse at a cost of Rs 40 lakh.