Not Just Projects, PM Modi to inaugurate the lost Hope of Mumbaikars today
By Varun Singh
Even at the verge of being tagged as a Bhakt, I write today that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not just be inaugurating the infrastructure projects in the city of Mumbai, but he will be inaugurating the hopes of crores of Mumbaikars. Mumbaikars is a term used to define someone who stays in Mumbai and also around the city in different districts, but visits the city daily to work.
For the last five years there's one thing that almost every one residing in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) has been hearing of, and that is Metro Project. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Mumbai today and inaugurate as well as lay the foundation stone of projects worth nearly Rs 38,800 crore in the maximum city. Let's have a look at all the projects the PM shall be gifting the city of Mumbai.
He will inaugurate two lines of Mumbai Metro 2A and 7 from Gundavali Metro station in Andheri, and will also undertake a Metro ride from the station, because of this the Metro services shall remain shut for a brief period which has got some anguish amongst the citizen as it is happening during the peak hours.
However, the important thing is that the lines which Modi will be inaugurating today, their foundation stonewas also laid by the Prime Minister in 2015, when Devendra Fadnavis was the Chief Minister of the state during his first stint.
Coming to the next project, he will also launch MUMBAI 1, a mobile app and National Common Mobility Card. This app is meant to facilitate ease of travel and support digital payments.
While Metro has taken the limelight, and we shall know why in the next few paragraphs, The BMC has a lot of projects that the PM shall be inaugurating. The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of seven sewage treatment plants, which will be built at a cost of around Rs 17,200 crore, these plants shall come up at Malad, Bhandup, Versova, Ghatkopar, Bandra, Dharavi and Worli, with a combined capacity of nearly 2,460 MLD.
The BMC for the longest period has had dispensaries in the remotest corner of the city, on those lines, the PM will inaugurate 20 Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Aapla Dawakhanas. These Dawakhanas or dispensaries will be providing essential medical services like health check-ups, medicines, investigations and diagnostics completely free to people.
The focus on healthcare infrastructure in the city has taken a prominence here, Modi shall also lay the foundation stone for redevelopment of three hospitals in Mumbai, the Bhandup Multispeciality Municipal Hospital, the Siddharth Nagar Hospital, and the Oshiwara Maternity Home.
PM will inaugurate concretisation project for nearly 400-km of roads in Mumbai. This project will be developed at a cost of about Rs 6,100 crore, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) leader Aaditya Thackeray even claimed that the concretisation will lead to Mumbai having a similar fate to that of Joshimath. However, the BMC which was under the rule of the same Uddhav Sena in the past had awarded several concrete road contracts.
The PM will lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, a UNESCO heritage site, this project is expected to cost over Rs 1,800 crore. PM Modi will also start the transfer of approved loans of over one lakh beneficiaries under the PM SVANidhi Yojana.
