Eight years within the making, Mumbai Saturday lastly bought its first underground Metro with PM Narendra Modi inaugurating the primary section of the Aqua Line Metro, a 12.44-km stretch that can run from Aarey to Bandra Kurla Advanced (BKC). Your entire 33.5-km-long stretch that can join Cuffe Parade-BKC-Aarey Colony can be practical by March 2025.
The PM additionally took a trip from BKC to Santacruz and again, joined by Metro building staff and beneficiaries of the ‘Chief Minister Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’.
Mumbai residents will be capable to 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 challenge started in January 2017 with building going down in a number of the busiest elements of Mumbai.
Earlier than the inauguration, Modi visited Thane, the place he did bhoomipujan of the Thane Ring Metro challenge 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 Highway, Japanese Freeway extension amongst others,” he stated.
Modi criticised the earlier MVA authorities for delaying the Metro 3 challenge for 2 and a half years, which he claimed elevated its price 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.
