Work underway on over 1,000 km metro network in 27 cities: PM Narendra Modi
Work is in progress on over 1,000 km long metro rail network in 27 cities in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
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AHMEDABAD: Work is in progress on over 1,000 km long metro rail network in 27 cities in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. He was speaking after performing the ground breaking ceremony of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and Surat Metro Rail Project via video conferencing. There was a time when there was no modern thinking and policy on metro in our country. The result was that there was a different (type of) metro in each city. There was no uniformity then on the metro trains which started in different cities. There was no integration of metro with other modes of transport back then, he said.
PM Modi launches Ahmedabad, Surat Metro Rail projects
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Updated: Monday, January 18, 2021, 13:50 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 18: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today performed the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and the Surat Metro Rail Project via video-conferencing.
PM Modi said that the business opportunities will grow in Ahmedabad Surat with the help of the Metro and it would fulfil the future requirements of both the cities. He also said that Surat is the 2nd major city in Gujarat after Ahmedabad to be connected to modern public transport systems like the Metro.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Surat is the fourth fastest growing city in the world and it perfectly showcase the undying spirit of the city, PM Modi also said
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3068 Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during the bhoomi poojan of Surat Metro and Phase-2 of the Ahmedabad Metro. PTI photo.
Ahmedabad, January 18
Work is in progress on over 1,000 km long metro rail network in 27 cities in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.
He was speaking after performing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and Surat Metro Rail Project via video conferencing.
“There was a time when there was no modern thinking and policy on metro in our country. The result was that there was a different (type of) metro in each city,” Modi said.
Read more about Work underway on over 1,000 km metro network in 27 cities: PM Modi on Business Standard. The difference between the approach of his government and the previous governments is the (pace of) expansion of the metro rail network across the country, he said