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On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra and Karnataka to inaugurate and lay the groundwork for development projects totaling Rs 38,000 crore. The various projects aim to improve infrastructure, ease urban transit, and increase healthcare in India’s financial metropolis, Mumbai.
PM Modi will open two Mumbai Metro lines, 2A and 7, from Gundavali Metro station in Andheri, as well as ride the metro from the station. The combined value of the two lines is approximately Rs 12,600 crore.
The metro line 2A (yellow line) that connects Dahisar E and DN Nagar in Andheri West are approximately 18.6 kilometers long. Metro line 7 runs approximately 16.5 kilometers from Andheri E to Dahisar E (red line).
In addition, he will unveil the MUMBAI 1 Mobile App and the National Common Mobility Card — NCMC (Mumbai 1), both of which will make travel easier. The smartphone app can be displayed at Metro Station entry gates and facilitates digital payment to purchase tickets using UPI.
The NCMC card will enable rapid, contactless digital transactions, making the procedure easier and more seamless.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS AND HEALTH CENTRES
“The Prime Minister will lay the groundwork for seven sewage treatment plants, which will cost roughly Rs 17,200 crores to build. These plants would be built in Malad, Bhandup, Versova, Ghatkopar, Bandra, Dharavi, and Worli. They will have a total capacity of around 2,460 MLD “According to an official release.
He would open 20 ‘Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Aapla Dawakhana’ clinics to boost Mumbai’s healthcare infrastructure.
The ‘Aapla Dawakhana’ initiative provides people with free critical medical services including health check-ups, medicines, investigations, and diagnostics.
The prime minister will also lay the groundwork for three hospitals: a 360-bed multi-specialty municipal hospital in Bhandup, a 306-bed hospital in Goregaon (West), and a 152-bed maternity home in Oshiwara. According to the statement, this will assist lakhs of city inhabitants and provide them with world-class medical care.
ROAD PROJECTS
The PM will also announce a Rs 6,100 crore road concretization project for about 400 kilometers of roads in the megapolis. According to the statement, these concrete roads would provide faster travel as well as greater security, while also providing superior drainage facilities and utility ducts to eliminate recurrent road digging.
The foundation stone will be set for another significant project, the reconstruction of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in south Mumbai.
According to the statement, the project aims to decongest the terminus’s southern heritage node, increase facilities, improve multi-modal integration, and conserve and restore the world-famous landmark edifice to its former splendour. More than Rs 1,800 crore would be spent on the refurbishment.
In addition, the prime minister will begin the transfer of sanctioned loans for over one lakh beneficiaries under the PM SVANidhi Yojana.
The BJP has set its sights on the cash-rich Mumbai civic council to depose the opposing Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) party in the next civic elections, the date of which has yet to be announced.
TRAFFIC CHANGES
The Mumbai Traffic Police have issued traffic advice ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival in the city today. “Entry of heavy trucks on all highways, including the Western Express Highway in the Western Suburb, must be prohibited between 12 pm and 9 pm,” police said.
Due to the prime minister’s visit, a few highways in the region will be closed to vehicles, and traffic will be redirected to alternate routes, according to traffic police. Several roads have been shut down. Traffic will be redirected to other roads ahead of the prime minister’s visit.
On Thursday, flying operations would be prohibited inside the boundaries of police stations in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex and surrounding areas.
Flying activities, including the use of drones, paragliders, and remote-controlled micro-light aircraft, will be prohibited from noon to midnight on Thursday in the jurisdictions of four police stations, namely BKC, Andheri, Meghwadi, and Jogeshwari, according to an order issued by the Mumbai Police on Wednesday.
