PM inaugurates Metro from Mundka to Bahadurgarh
BAHADURGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Delhi Metro’s Mundka-Bahadurgarh section and described it as a ‘gateway’ of development as it will usher more development in Bahadurgarh and nearby areas.
After Gurugram and Faridabad, Bahadurgarh became the third Haryana city to connect with the Delhi metro.
Inaugurating the Metro through video conferencing from Delhi , Modi said the metro will bring convenience to Bahadurgarh and surrounding areas, considered the gateway of Haryana. “We have seen how the Metro in Delhi has brought about positive impact on the lives of citizens. I have also several times travelled through Metro,” he said.
He said that in the national capital region (NCR), the Metro has taken place of about 6 lakh cars. The process has been initiated to connect Delhi with Gaziabad-Meerut, besides connecting Delhi with Sonepat and Panipat under Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), a semi-high speed rail corridor. The 11.2-km fully elevated Mundka-Bahadurgarh corridor is part of the Delhi Metro’s Green Line. The Mundka-Bahadurgarh stretch, with seven stations, would be an extension of the existing Green Line (standard gauge tracks) from Inderlok to Mundka.
In Haryana, the stations will be Modern Industrial Estate, Bus Stand and City Park while in Delhi, the stations will be Mundka Industrial area, Ghevra, Tikri Kalan and Tikri Border.
The PM said his government brought out first metro policy in 2017 which catered to all issues related to the metro system. Earlier there was no such policy, he said. The PM said that as many as 12 cities were being connected through metro in the country.
He said that after Shanghai, Beijing, London and New York, the Delhi Metro has become the 5th largest metro network in the world. The metro has also become a means to establish better relations with other countries. He said two modern metro coach manufacturing plants are being set up in Vadodara of Gujarat and Chennai of Tamil Nadu. After setting of these plants, India will be able to export metro coaches to other countries as well, he said. Modi said the process of making Metro systems is also linked to cooperative federalism because wherever the metros are being built in India, the Centre and state governments are working together.