PM Modi To Visit Kanpur On Tuesday, Will Inaugurate Metro Rail Project Worth Rs 11,000 Crore
PM Modi Kanpur Visit: PM Modi will inspect the Kanpur Metro Rail Project on Tuesday and undertake a metro ride from IIT metro station to Geeta Nagar.
PM Modi Kanpur Visit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kanpur on Tuesday and inaugurate the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project as well as the Bina-Panki Multi-Product Pipeline Project.
The entire length of the Metro Rail Project in Kanpur is 32 Km, and is being built at a cost of over Rs 11,000 crore, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) informed.
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As per the official statement, PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the completed section of Kanpur Metro Rail Project at around 1:30 PM. During the programme, the Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Bina-Panki Multi-Product Pipeline Project.
Prior to the inauguration ceremony, he will attend the 54th Convocation Ceremony of IIT Kanpur at around 11 AM.
Kanpur Metro Rail Project
As previously mentioned, the entire length of the Metro Rail Project in Kanpur is 32 Km, and it is being built at a cost of over Rs 11,000 crore.
Meanwhile, the completed 9 Km long section is from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel.
PM Modi will inspect the Kanpur Metro Rail Project on Tuesday and undertake a metro ride from the IIT metro station to Geeta Nagar.
“Improving urban mobility has been one of the key focus areas of the Prime Minister. The inauguration of the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project is yet another step in this direction,” the PMO statement read.
Bina-Panki Multi-Product Pipeline Project
The Prime Minister will also be inaugurating the Bina-Panki Multi-Product Pipeline Project. The 356 Km long project has a capacity of around 3.45 million metric tonne per annum.
The project, extending from the Bina refinery in Madhya Pradesh to Panki in Kanpur, has been built at a cost of over Rs 1500 crore.
As per PMO, it will help the region access petroleum products from the Bina refinery.
54th Convocation of IIT Kanpur
PM Narendra Modi will be the Chief Guest of the 54th Convocation of IIT Kanpur.
“During the convocation, all the students will be issued digital degrees through an in-house blockchain-driven technology developed at the Institute under the National Blockchain Project,” PMO stated.
It was informed that PM Modi will launch the blockchain-based digital degrees. These digital degrees can be verified globally and are unforgeable, the official statement read.
The Prime Minister has been visiting poll-bound Uttar Pradesh often in recent times to launch big-ticket infrastructure projects as the ruling Yogi Adityanath-led government is striving to secure a second consecutive with a sizeable majority.
On the other hand, opposition parties such as the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP), Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and Congress under the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi are leaving no stone unturned in their respective bid to succeed the ruling dispensation.
Uttar Pradesh is among the five states going to assembly polls early next year.
(With Agency Inputs)
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