India's Metro network surges nearly five-fold since 2014, now spans 26 cities: PM Modi

New Delhi, Nov 5 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday highlighted the rapid expansion of India's Metro rail network since 2014, saying the operational network had grown from 248 km across five cities to nearly 1,200 km covering 26 cities, with more than one crore passengers using the services every day. Underscoring the transformation in urban public transport, Modi said the pace of expansion before 2014 would have left several cities, including Pune, waiting for years, if not decades, for Metro connectivity. In a post on social media platform X, the Prime Minister posed a question on the pace…