On December 28, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kanpur to inaugurate the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project.
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The “Bina-Panki multi-product pipeline project” will also be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. Later, he will speak at IIT-54th Kanpur’s convocation ceremony.
On February 28, 2019, the central government approved the Kanpur Metro Project, which has a budget of more than Rs 11,000 crores and a five-year timeline.
A 650 million loan from the European Bank (EIB) has also been proposed for this project.
The Bina-Panki project, which spans 356 kilometers, has a capacity of 3.45 million metric tonnes per year.
The project stretches from Madhya Pradesh’s Bina refinery to Kanpur’s Panki. It was constructed at a cost of over Rs 1,500 crore. The refinery will aid in the region’s access to petroleum products.