During a meeting with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at the state secretariat Nabanna, the railway minister said only 28 km of the Kolkata Metro network was completed in 42 years, while 45 km of metro lines have been added since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014.
“In the next five years, 60 next-generation trains will be introduced for Kolkata Metro. Today, I took the Kolkata Metro. We will revamp the Kolkata Metro,” he said.
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The minister also said that the proposed bullet train services between Delhi-Varanasi and Varanasi-Siliguri were aimed at sharply reducing travel time.
“These high-speed corridors will connect Siliguri with New Delhi in six hours,” he said.
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