{"id":503801,"date":"2024-03-06T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=503801"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:37:34","slug":"underwater-metro-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/underwater-metro-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi unveils India&#8217;s 1st underwater Metro route in Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated India&#8217;s first-ever underwater metro route in Kolkata. This historic project highlights the country&#8217;s progress toward infrastructural development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After inaugurating the metro, PM Modi travelled with school students in India&#8217;s first underwater metro in Kolkata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | West Bengal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels with school students in India&#39;s first underwater metro train in Kolkata. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95s42MNWUS\">pic.twitter.com\/95s42MNWUS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1765242456352682020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, he laid the foundation stone for other Rs 15,400 crore connectivity projects.<br><br>The Kavi Subhash Metro, Majerhat Metro, Kochi Metro, Agra Metro, Meerut-RRTS segment, Pune Metro, and Esplanade section of the Kolkata Metro are among the metro railways that the Prime Minister launched.<br><br>The underwater service is a portion of Kolkata Metro&#8217;s East-West corridor, which would cross the Hooghly River for a distance of 16.6 kilometers and pass through Howrah Maidan-Esplanade.<br><br>The metro service will link Salt Lake and Howrah, the twin cities of the state capital of West Bengal. There will be three subterranean stations among the six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to these, PM Modi promised the country the following projects: the Agra Metro&#8217;s stretch from Taj East Gate to Mankameshwar; the Kochi Metro Rail Phase I Extension project (Phase IB) from SN Junction Metro station to Tripunithura Metro station; and the Duhai-Modinagar (North) section of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS Corridor.<br><br>PM Modi is scheduled to address&nbsp;a public rally later in the afternoon in Barasat, which is located in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, which is home to Sandeshkhali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Modi addressed two rallies in Hooghly&#8217;s Arambagh and Nadia&#8217;s Krishnanagar during his visit to West Bengal last week. He attacked the TMC government led by Mamata Banerjee for atrocities against women in Sandeshkhali during his speech, claiming that the entire country is seething with anger over the issue. In addition, he urged people to make sure the TMC loses the next Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, PM Modi met Mamata Banerjee in Raj Bhavan, Kolkata. According to tradition, the chief minister referred to this meet as a courtesy meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Modi inaugurated India&#8217;s first underwater metro route in Kolkata today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[162218,34,165,162219],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/06110524\/Kolkata-metro-Hooghly-770x433-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503801"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=503801"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=503801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->