PM Modi Arrives In Ahmedabad For First Visit After Third Term, Set To Flag Off India's First 'Vande Metro'

<p><strong>Ahmedabad</strong>: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Ahmedabad airport on Sunday evening, his first visit to his home state after being sworn in as PM for a third straight term in June.</p> <p>He was received by Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel at the airport.</p> <p>The prime minister will flag off the country's first 'Vande Metro' service between Bhuj and Ahmedabad besides several other Vande Bharat trains on Monday.</p> <p>His other engagements include the inauguration of the 4th edition of RE-INVEST 2024 in Gandhinagar and inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 8,000 crore in Ahmedabad.</p> <p>Modi will launch the second phase of the metro rail service connecting Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar and take a ride on the metro train.</p> <p>The Vande Bharat trains to be flagged off by Modi will operate on routes including Kolhapur-Pune, Pune-Hubballi, Nagpur-Secunderabad, Agra Cantt to Banaras, and Durg to Visakhapatnam. The first 20-coach Vande Bharat train will run between Varanasi and Delhi, as per a PMO release.</p> <p>According to Western Railway officials, the Ahmedabad-Bhuj Vande Metro service will stop at nine stations and cover the 360-kilometre distance in 5 hours and 45 minutes at a top speed of 110 kilometres per hour.</p> <p>It will depart from Bhuj at 5:05 am and reach Ahmedabad Junction at 10:50 am, the officials had said.</p> <p>The prime minister will also inaugurate a 30 MW solar system, a 35 MW BESS Solar PV Project at Kutch Lignite Thermal Power Station, Kutch, and 220 Kilovolt substations at Morbi and Rajkot.</p> <p>Modi will launch the Single Window IT System (SWITS) of the International Financial Services Centres Authority, designed to streamline financial services.</p> <p>The prime minister will sanction over 30,000 houses under the PMAY-Gramin and release the first instalment for these homes, as well as launch construction of houses under the PMAY scheme.</p> <p>At the Ahmedabad event, Modi will also lay the foundation stone of projects concerning the quadrupling of the Samakhiali&ndash;Gandhidham and Gandhidham&ndash;Adipur railway lines, the development of iconic roads and the construction of flyovers in Ahmedabad city.&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong>(This report has been published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. Apart from the headline, no editing has been done in the copy by ABP Live.)</strong></em></p>

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