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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
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Union Housing & Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri will be present on the occasion, according to the PMO release.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will perform the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and the Surat Metro Rail Project via video-conferencing on Monday (January 18). The ceremony will start at 10:30 AM via video conferencing, informed the Prime Minister s Office. Today is a landmark day for two of Gujarat’s leading urban centres. The Bhoomi Poojan of Surat Metro and Phase-2 of the Ahmedabad Metro would take place at 10:30 AM, Narendra Modi tweeted on Monday.