LUCKNOW, May 20 -- : About a dozen Uttar Pradesh railway stations in North Eastern Railway's Lucknow, Izzatnagar and Varanasi divisions are on the track to winning over tourists and other travellers with a modern, eye-catching makeover.

Sporting facade lighting, redesigned buildings and granite flooring, these stations have shed their past image as desolate entities which only had bare minimum facilities.

Revamped under the "Amrit Station Yojana," these are among the 103 completed stations across the country that will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 22.

These NER stations in the Lucknow, Izzatnagar and Varanasi divisions are: Mailani, Gola Gokarannath, Siddharthnagar, Balrampur, Ramghat-Ayodhya, and Swami Narayan ...