PM Modi to inaugurate the completed section of Kanpur Metro Rail

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project as he visits the city in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. Following the inauguration of the project at around 1:30pm, the Prime Minister is also expected to inspect the Metro Rail and take a ride from the IIT Metro station to Geeta Nagar.

The inauguration of the Kanpur Metro project comes ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls next year and will mark one of the key developmental projects of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state.Kanpur Metro is a 32-km long rail-based mass transit system and is still under construction in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur.Being built at a cost of over ₹11,000 crore, the Kanpur Metro is going to be the fastest built Metro project in the country.

The project aims to tackle traffic woes and congestion in the city.

According to reports, two corridors were approved by the government for the project as per the Detailed Project Report (DPR).

The first corridor set to be inaugurated on Tuesday is 9-km long and stretches between IIT to Motijheel.

According to reports, the first section of the project is expected to open in January 2022. The construction work of the Kanpur Metro project was started by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on November 15, 2019, while the trial run on the 9km stretch from IIT to Motijheel Priority Corridor took place on November 10 this year.

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