India: PM Modi Kanpur Visit LIVE: PM begins address at IIT Kanpur, to inaugurate Kanpur Metro Rail Project shortly

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (December 28) will inaugurate the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project.

The inauguration will take place at around 1.30 pm. PM Modi will also address the IIT Kanpur students. He will also undertake a metro ride from the IIT metro station to Geeta Nagar.

The completed 9 km long section of Kanpur Metro Rail Project stretches from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel. It is being built at a cost of over Rs 11,000 crore. The entire length of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project is 32 km. This is going to be the faster built metro projects in the country.

The construction work of the Kanpur metro project was started on November 15, 2019. It was initiated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In less than two years, the trial run of the project took place on the 9 km IIT to Motijheel Priority Corridor on November 10, 2021.

Besides inaugurating the metro project, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be inaugurating Bina-Panki Multiproduct Pipeline Project. The 356 Km long Bina-Panki Multiproduct Pipeline Project has a capacity of around 3.45 million metric tonnes per annum, as per the PMO.

Prior to the inauguration, PM Modi will attend the 54th Convocation Ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur at around 11 am. All the students will be issued digital degrees through an in-house blockchain-driven technology developed at the Institute under the National Blockchain Project. The Prime Minister will launch the blockchain-based digital degrees. These digital degrees can be verified globally and are unforgeable.

Here are the latest developments:

PM Modi has started addressing the 54th Convocation Ceremony in IIT Kanpur.