By way of PTI
PUNE: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday unveiled a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj within the premises of Pune Municipal Company.
The statue is made up of one,850 kg of gunmetal and is set 9.5-feet tall.
Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol greeted Modi on his arrival on the municipal company headquarters right here and presented him a specifically crafted headgear.
The PM additionally paid floral tributes to the statue of social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule on the civic headquarters.
Previous, Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, state cupboard minister and senior Shiv Sena chief Subhash Desai, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Devendra Fadnavis and BJP state president Chandrakant Patil welcomed Modi after he landed on the Lohegaon World Airport right here.
The high minister will even inaugurate the Pune metro rail’s two precedence stretches of 12 km, out of the entire 32.2 km undertaking within the town.
The basis stone of the metro undertaking was once additionally laid by way of Modi on Dec 24, 2016. All of the metro undertaking is being constructed at the price of greater than Rs 11,400 crore.