bhopal amid the coronavirus scare the redevelopment work o the habibganj station has been put on hold authorities said if the lockdown continues for next 15 days the work will take an extra six months to get completed as the construction company is not able to get raw material from outside the country for since january earlier the construction company bansal pathways habibganj private ltd was given a threemonth extension of the deadline to complete redevelopment workthe first deadline was december 31 2019 but about 14 construction work was yet to be completed by that time railway officials had given the second deadline of march 31 2020 which will be missed again habibganj is the first railway station in the country to be redeveloped through publicprivate partnership mode under the station redevelopment programme of indian railways irsdc a joint venture of ircon and rlda is the nodal agency for undertaking development works at railway stations under the ministry of railways the revenue realized from real estate development and commercial facilities at the station are being utilized for station redevelopment and maintenancetalking to toi joint gm of indian railway station development corporation irsdc rajesh mandloi said this is a critical situation work construction work has been affected severely as the company is not getting the required materials most of the material which is being used is to be imported from china singapore and such other countries which has been stopped since january due to the coronavirus scare mandloisaid i am not in a position to specify as to when te work will be completed work has been completely stopped due to the cororna scare