The railway Ministry has asked the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) to develop Mangalore Central Railway Station to ‘World Class’ standards. Mangalore Central was one of the 50 stations chosen for redevelopment by then Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee in 2009. In 2014, the Dakshina Kannada district administration recommended developing Mangalore Junction as Central is located in a congested area. In the last 12 years however, no development took place in either of the stations. The redevelopment would involve private participation either public-private partnership (PPP) wherein the private partner would make the investment or partial PPP where the Railways would bear a portion of the project cost. The modalities would be decided once the RLDA comes to a conclusion about the commercial potential of the project.