Mumbai city will get two new Metro lines on Thursday, 2A and 7, together comprising a 35-km long elevated corridor stretching from Dahisar to Andheri forming a horseshoe ring route, linking the east and west sides of the city, passing through Link Road and Western Express Highway.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the metro lines at around 6.30 pm. PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the metro lines on October 11, 2015, when the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government was in power.
Both these metro lines were sanctioned by the Fadnavis government along with other 300 km metro lines in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, including the city’s first underground Metro Line 3 that stretches from Colaba to SEEPZ via BKC,