Modi to inaugurate Hyd metro on Nov 28
Hyderabad is set to become the latest Indian city to get a metro railway system with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to inaugurate the elevated metro rail project on November 28.
HyderabadMetroRailLimited (HMRL) sources said Modi will unveilapylonatMiyapurmetro rail station, the first point on the Mumbai-Hyderabad national highway, to mark the inauguration of the first phase of the project covering a distance of 30kmintwocorridors.Theentire project stretches for 72km in three corridors.
Later, the PrimeMinisterwill watch a presentation of digital imagesoftheevolutionoftherailway system in Hyderabad from the days of the Nizam State Railways to the metro project.
He is expected to travel in the trainforadistanceof13km,along with state governor ESL Narasimhan, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and other officials.
The project will be thrown opentothepublictwohoursafter theformalinauguration,sources said. “We are all ready with the arrangements for the inauguration. We are just awaiting the finalitineraryofthePrimeMinister,” an HMRL official said.
Modiwillbeinthecitytoinaugurate the three-day Global EntrepreneurshipSummitbeing organisedbytheUSgovernment incollaborationwithNitiAayog.
One of the biggest metro rail projects inpublic-private participation(PPP)mode,theplancommencedinApril 2012 at aninitial estimated cost of ₹14,000 crore.
As per the latest estimates, the cost has gone up to over ₹18,500 crore. The project is being executed by Larsen and Toubro.
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