Eight years within the making, Mumbai Saturday lastly obtained its first underground Metro with PM Narendra Modi inaugurating the primary part of the Aqua Line Metro, a 12.44-km stretch that can run from Aarey to Bandra Kurla Complicated (BKC). Your complete 33.5-km-long stretch that can join Cuffe Parade-BKC-Aarey Colony shall be purposeful by March 2025.
The PM additionally took a experience from BKC to Santacruz and again, joined by Metro development employees and beneficiaries of the ‘Chief Minister Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’.
Mumbai residents will be capable of avail the companies of the brand new line beginning Monday, 11 am. Common companies will start the next day, working from 6.30 am to 10.30 pm.
Work on the venture started in January 2017 with development going down in a few of the busiest components of Mumbai.
Earlier than the inauguration, Modi visited Thane, the place he did bhoomipujan of the Thane Ring Metro venture and the brand new Thane Municipal Company headquarters.
He highlighted ongoing infrastructure initiatives in Mumbai, asserting that the present authorities supported by the BJP has made vital progress in enhancing metropolis’s transport system.
“In Mumbai, roughly 300 km of Metro initiatives are underway, alongside main infrastructure initiatives such because the Thane-Borivali twin tunnel, Versova -Bandra Coastal Street, Jap Freeway extension amongst others,” he mentioned.
Modi criticised the earlier MVA authorities for delaying the Metro 3 venture for 2 and a half years, which he claimed elevated its value by Rs 14,000 crore.
As Maharashtra prepares for the Meeting elections, the brand new Metro Line 3 is being seen as a significant addition to the town’s transport community.
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