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Multi-modal Connectivity Cover Story

THE IMPETUS FOR Metro 27 cities in 2022. Whereas in 2014 it

DEVELOPMENT reached was in only 5 cities.

WITH METRO During this, the metro was running in a
248 km network, which has increased to
about 850 km in 2022.

Between 2002 and 2014, an average of

20 km of metro routes were built per
year, while between 2014 and 2022 the
figure is 63 km per year.

21st-century India is going to get new
momentum from the cities of the country.
The proof of this is the growing network of
the metro.
In the last eight years, one after the other,
more than two dozen cities in the country
have either started or the work is going on
metro projects
According to the information given in the
Rajya Sabha, 1212 km of lines have been
approved so far in the country, including the
lines started before Delhi Metro 2014, are
under construction in different phases or the
metro is running on those tracks.
About Rs 3.52 lakh crore is being spent
on developing such a colossal network.
Recently launching of a 32km metro line in
one go in Ahemdabad set a record
Similarly, the proposal of 17 corridors of 663
km from the states has come for approval.
The country's first rapid rail is also preparing
to run.

was launched with the aim of fulfilling this objective. affordable travel, the number of passengers is also
So far more than one crore passengers have traveled increasing rapidly. The Airports Authority of India
in airplanes under the UDAN scheme. As a result of has made an assessment regarding the number of
the government's initiative to boost air connectivity air passengers in the next 10 years, in which it has
and affordable travel, the number of passengers is been revealed that the number of passengers in the
also increasing rapidly. With the speed with which country during 2019-2020, which was 34.1 crore, will
the government is working on air connectivity and increase to 42.7 crore in 2032-2033.

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