Prime Minister Narendra Modi will next week inaugurate the much-awaited Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of the Kolkata Metro, a government release said on Sunday.
The PM will also inaugurate the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay and the Taratala-Majerhat metro sections, it said.
Modi is scheduled to visit Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar from March 4-6, the release said.
With a focus on enhancing avenues for ensuring ease of urban mobility, the prime minister will inaugurate Kolkata Metro’s Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section in the East West Metro corridor, it said.