Prime Minister Narendra Modi on today, 18 january, performed ground-breaking  ceremony or Bhoomi Poojan for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and Surat Metro Rail Project through video-conferencing. The online event was also attended by home minister Amit Shah, Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani and other leaders.

Oneday earlier, PM tweeted informing about the event "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," the 

While speaking at the ceremony PM Modi said, 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.  Before 2014, only 225 km of metro line became operational in 10-12 yrs. In the last six years, over 450 km of metro network became operational

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 added.

Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II is 28.25 Km long with two corridors. Corridor-1 is 22.8 Kilometres long and is from Motera Stadium to Mahatma Mandir. Corridor-2 is 5.4 Kilometres long and is from GNLU to GIFT City. The total completion cost of the Phase-II project is Rs 5,384 crores.

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