Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Pune metro rail mission and unveiled a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the premises of Pune Municipal Corporation.
The inauguration of the 12-km stretch of the whole 32.2-km lengthy challenge took region at the Garware metro station, from the place Mr. Modi flagged off the challenge and proceeded to take the metro experience to the Anandnagar station, positioned almost five km away.
Later he travelled in the teach after buying a ticket from a kiosk. During the 10-minute ride, the Prime Minister interacted with differently-abled students, some of them visually impaired, current inside the metro coach.
Before taking the metro trip from the Garware station, Mr. Modi additionally inspected an exhibition of the project put up there. The 12-km-long route inaugurated on Sunday includes two precedence stretches—Garware College to Vanaz (5 km) and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to Phugewadi (7 km)— on two metro lines.
The complete value of the Pune metro assignment is over ₹11,400 crore. The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone for the undertaking on December 24, 2016. Prime Minister Narendra Modi until now in the day additionally unveilied a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The statue is made up of 1,850 kg of gunmetal and is about 9.5-feet tall.
The PM also paid floral tributes to the statue of social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule at the civic headquarters. Earlier, Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, State cabinet minister and senior Shiv Sena chief Subhash Desai, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Devendra Fadnavis and BJP state president Chandrakant Patil welcomed Mr. Modi after he landed at the Lohegaon International Airport here.
