Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the “double engine” government at the Centre and Uttar Pradesh are working with double speed, without wasting any time for the development of the state. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project, alongside the Bina-Panki Multiproduct Pipeline Project, the Prime Minister said, “Today is Tuesday and with the blessings of Hanuman Ji, another golden chapter is being added to the development of UP. Today Kanpur has got metro connectivity and connected to Bina Refinery. Today, Kanpur has finally got its own metro service. I travelled via the metro and it was truly a memorable experience for me. I congratulate the people of Kanpur on achieving this feat,” said PM Modi. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri were also present on the occasion. The Prime Minister’s Kanpur visit came on a day when Union Minister Home Amit Shah, addressing the “Jan Vishwas Yatra” in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi, on Tuesday hit out at opposition parties and said that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress cannot stop the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Shah took a dig over the perfume trader Peeyush Jain’s arrest and said that the Samajwadi Party is unable to answer for the crores recovered during the raids as it is the money looted from the people of Uttar Pradesh.
In Kanpur, the Prime Minister said that the previous government in Uttar Pradesh did not work towards the development of the region and wasted so many years. But now, we are not wasting a single minute and will take the state to great heights. “The double engine government that is running in Uttar Pradesh today is trying to make up for the loss of time in the past. We are working at double speed,” said PM Modi.
The completed 9 km long section of Kanpur Metro Rail Project stretches from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel. The entire length of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project is 32 km and is being built at a cost of over Rs 11,000 crore.
Earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Modi launched blockchain-based digital degrees at the 54th convocation ceremony of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. At the convocation, all the students were issued digital degrees through an in-house blockchain-driven technology developed at the Institute under the National Blockchain Project. These digital degrees can be verified globally and are unforgeable. The PM said that India has emerged as the second biggest start-up hub in the world, and this has been achieved majorly with the help of students from the IITs. Addressing the 54th convocation ceremony of IIT Kanpur, the Prime Minister said, “In this 75th year of independence, we have over 75 unicorns, over 50,000 start-ups. Of these, 10,000 have come only in the last 6 months. India has emerged to be the second biggest startup hub in the world, and this feat has been achieved majorly with the help of students from IITs.”