PM Modi inaugurates Pune metro rail project, buys ticket and takes train ride; see pics here

Pune: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Pune metro rail project and travelled in the train after himself buying a ticket from a kiosk.

Maharashtra | PM Narendra Modi buys a ticket before travelling on Pune Metro from Garware College to Anand Nagar pic.twitter.com/Xudah39ToY

— ANI (@ANI) March 6, 2022

The inauguration of the 12-km stretch of the total 32.2-km long project took place at the Garware metro station, from where Modi flagged off the project and proceeded to take the metro ride to the Anandnagar station, located nearly five km away.

On board the Pune Metro with my young friends. pic.twitter.com/QZi0AL0Uv2

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 6, 2022

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During the 10-minute ride, the PM interacted with differently-abled students, some of them visually impaired, present inside the metro coach. Before taking the metro ride from the Garware station, Modi also inspected an exhibition of the project put up there. The 12-km-long route inaugurated on Sunday includes two priority stretches– Garware College to Vanaz (5 km) and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to Phugewadi (7 km) – on two metro lines. The total cost of the Pune metro project is over Rs 11,400 crore. The PM had laid the foundation stone for the project on December 24, 2016. Read all the  Latest News ,  Trending News ,  Cricket News ,  Bollywood News ,  India News  and  Entertainment News  here. Follow us on  Facebook,  Twitter and  Instagram.