PM Modi flags off Mumbai’s first underground Metro line, takes a ride

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mumbai metro, Mumbai metro aqua line, Mumbai metro inauguration, p.m. modi, Narendra Modi, bkc, aarey, Mumbai metro project, Indian explicit news Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde successful Thane connected Saturday. (Express Photo by Deepak Joshi)

Eight years successful the making, Mumbai Saturday yet got its archetypal underground Metro with PM Narendra Modi inaugurating the archetypal signifier of the Aqua Line Metro, a 12.44-km agelong that volition tally from Aarey to Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). The full 33.5-km-long agelong that volition link Cuffe Parade-BKC-Aarey Colony volition beryllium functional by March 2025.

The PM besides took a thrust from BKC to Santacruz and back, joined by Metro operation workers and beneficiaries of the ‘Chief Minister Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’.
Mumbai residents volition beryllium capable to avail the services of the caller enactment starting Monday, 11 am. Regular services volition statesman the pursuing day, operating from 6.30 americium to 10.30 pm.

Work connected the task began successful January 2017 with operation taking spot successful immoderate of the busiest parts of Mumbai.

Before the inauguration, Modi visited Thane, wherever helium did bhoomipujan of the Thane Ring Metro task and the caller Thane Municipal Corporation headquarters.
He highlighted ongoing infrastructure projects successful Mumbai, asserting that the existent authorities supported by the BJP has made important advancement successful enhancing city’s transport system.

“In Mumbai, astir 300 km of Metro projects are underway, alongside large infrastructure initiatives specified arsenic the Thane-Borivali duplicate tunnel, Versova -Bandra Coastal Road, Eastern Freeway hold among others,” helium said.

Modi criticised the erstwhile MVA authorities for delaying the Metro 3 task for 2 and a fractional years, which helium claimed accrued its outgo by Rs 14,000 crore.

As Maharashtra prepares for the Assembly elections, the caller Metro Line 3 is being seen arsenic a captious summation to the city’s transport network.

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