{"id":9758,"date":"2019-03-08T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:21:11","slug":"launches-ahmedabads-first-metro-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/launches-ahmedabads-first-metro-train\/","title":{"rendered":"launches Ahmedabad\u2019s first Metro train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stone laid for Phase-2 of Ahmedabad Metro for 22.84 km Motera-Mahatma Mandir section<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launches Ahmedabad\u2019s first Metro train on 6.5km section between Vastral Gam and Apparel Park under Phase-1<br \/>\nAhmedabad city\u2019s first Metro train between Vastral and Apparel Park, a distance of 6.5 km, under Phase-1. He himself travelled on the train from Vastral up to Nirant Crossroad. He was accompanied by Gujarat\u2019s Governor, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitinbhai Patel and others.<br \/>\nMr. Modi also inaugurated the Automated Fare Collection Gate, designed on Swadeshi theme installed at the Vastral Gam Metro Station.<br \/>\nThe fare collection system is the National Common Mobility Card System (NCMC), which can be accessed through debit or credit card or RuPay, jointly developed by Bharat<br \/>\nElectronics Limited (BEL), C-DAC, DMRC, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)<br \/>\nand SBI.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister on this occasion also laid the foundation stone of Ahmedabad Metro<br \/>\nPhase-2, extending from Motera to Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, a distance of 22.84<br \/>\nkm, to be built at a cost of Rs.6,769-crore, with 5.42 km offshoot from GNLU to GIFT City,<br \/>\ncomprising elevated corridor having 22 stations.<br \/>\nThose present at the function included Union Minister of State for Housing &amp;amp; Urban Affairs<br \/>\nHardeep Singh Puri, Gujarat\u2019s Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja, Ahmedabad<br \/>\nMayor Bijalben Patel, Metro Rail Project Managing Director I.P. Gautam, Chief Manager<br \/>\nAmit Gupta, BJP State President Jitubhai Vaghani, Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra<br \/>\nand D-G Police Shivanand Jha, among others.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stone laid for Phase-2 of Ahmedabad Metro for 22.84 km Motera-Mahatma Mandir section Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches Ahmedabad\u2019s first Metro train on 6.5km section between Vastral Gam and Apparel Park under Phase-1 Ahmedabad city\u2019s first Metro train between Vastral and Apparel Park, a distance of 6.5 km, under Phase-1. He himself travelled on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-2xo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9759,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions\/9759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}