Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating India's first under-river metro tunnel in Kolkata on Wednesday (6 March). The metro tunnel has been built under Kolkata's Hooghly River that will connect Howrah Maidan to Esplanade.
Prime Minister Modi will also inaugurate in Kolkata the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay and the Taratala-Majerhat metro sections, “with a focus on enhancing avenues for ensuring ease of urban mobility”.
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PM Modi to inaugurate first under-river tunnel of Kolkata Metro on 6 March
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