Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged people of Maharashtra to stop plastic from entering into the sea during the immersion of Ganesh idols. The Prime Minister was speaking in Mumbai where he inaugurated a slew of new projects. Prime Minister performed Bhoomi poojan of the 32-storey Metro Bhavan, which will serve as the integrated operations and control centre for all the proposed 14 metro lines in and around Mumbai.
Prime Minister launched an indigenously-built metro coach to be used by the upcoming Mumbai metro network. The coach, the first in the list of 500 to be delivered to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, has been built by Bharat Earth Movers (BEML) at its Bengaluru facility in flat 75 days. Accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Mumbai Metro officials, PM Modi took a tour of the new coach and the train.
He also inaugurated three Metro lines that are expected to ease traffic in the financial and entertainment hub that sees severe public transport disruption during monsoon. He also launched several infrastructure projects worth Rs. 20,000 crore.