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Kochi( April 23, 2023) -: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to dedicate India’s first water metro to the country on 25 April. The Modi government is paying special attention to the means of transport. Kochi city of Kerala is situated in the port. Here big boats are used for traffic and business. Now Water Metro is going to run here soon. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has also termed it as a dream project.
The development of any village, city, country is possible only when the connectivity there is better. Metro cannot be run in all the cities on the lines of Delhi, Lucknow, Bengaluru. That’s why the concept of Light Metro was brought. Its cost will also be less and the infrastructure for this will also not be very expensive.
For the first time, a driverless metro trial was held on Delhi’s Magenta Line. It was flagged off by PM Modi himself. That’s why he had said that Neo Metro will be started soon. Neo Metro is completely different from the common metro. Its wheels are of rubber, like those of buses. It will be completely electric. The government is focusing more on the convenience, comfort and safe travel of the people. In this metro system, three hundred passengers will be able to travel at a time. Its rent will also be less and it will not harm the environment in any way.
