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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (January 11, 2025) flagged disconnected the Metro Rail from the Mahatma Mandir Metro Station successful Gandhinagar, marking the inauguration of the remaining Phase-II agelong of the Ahmedabad–Gandhinagar Metro project.
Governor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi were contiguous connected the occasion.
After flagging disconnected the metro service, the Prime Minister interacted with citizens gathered astatine the station.
The presumption witnessed a festive and devotional ambiance arsenic radical waved the nationalist emblem and raised slogans of “Jai Somnath, Jai Narendra Bhai ne Jai Somnath.”
As portion of the event, Mr. Patel and Mr. Sanghavi travelled by metro connected the Phase-II way successful Gandhinagar. During the journey, the Chief Minister interacted with commuters and students and sought feedback connected the metro services, reiterating the State government’s committedness to providing modern, businesslike and accelerated nationalist transport.
Providing details of the project, Director (Project and Planning) of the Metro Rail, Anand Singh Bisht, said the Ahmedabad–Gandhinagar Metro Rail was archetypal inaugurated successful Ahmedabad successful October 2022. In September 2024, the Prime Minister had inaugurated the metro services from Motera to Sector-1, on with extensions up to Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) and GIFT City.
With Sunday’s inauguration, the remaining Phase-II agelong comprising 7 metro stations implicit a region of 7.8 km had go operational. Mr. Bisht said that during Phase-I, the metro recorded an mean regular ridership of astir 35,000 passengers. With Phases I and II present afloat integrated, regular ridership had accrued to astir 1.60 lakh passengers commuting betwixt Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, reflecting a emergence of astir 60%.
