India to have world's second-largest metro system in two years: Hardeep Puri

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Hardeep Puri said, "In today's day, the fact that needs to be reiterated is that there are 1 crore people riding on the metro every day, and out of the 1 crore people, 73 lakh are the ridership of the capital region of Delhi." "Today, even though the population of the city is expanding massively, it is still easy to get from one part of the city to the other within a reasonable period of time. More people are taking to urban transport," he said.

"Today we have 945 kilometres of metro system functioning in the country, and we have another 1,000 under construction. This will be done in the next two and a half years, and we will have the world's second-largest urban transport metro," said Puri.

Adding further, he said, "Who would have thought of it when Vajpayee ji started this metro system back in 2002?" The Union Minister also threw light on the criminal justice system and the modernization of the police force and highlighted the progress made in the past decade under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Reading out from page 55 of the BJP manifesto, Hardeep Singh Puri said, "The manifesto reads about modernising police forces and will assist states in transforming the police into a tech-savvy, tech-trained, and tech-equipped force through the police modernization scheme." "This is just one thought, but behind that is an entire ecosystem of reform that is already underway and will be accelerated in the next five years," he said.

Former Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi also spoke on the eve and praised Prime Minister Modi's government for encouraging "out of the box thinking." "PM Modi's government is imbued with out-of-the-box thinking. The way to encourage out-of-the-box thinking is the speciality of the