New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday highlighted India's rapid urban transport transformation, contrasting the metro network's pre-2014 growth rate with the rapid expansion achieved over the past decade.

In a post on X, PM Modi emphasised that India's operational metro footprint has expanded from just 248 km across five cities in 2014 to nearly 1,200 km spanning 26 cities today, with over one crore daily commuters.

"Let me ask you... If India's Metro network had continued expanding at the pace it did before 2014, how long would the wait be for cities like Pune to have a metro? YEARS, no DECADES, perhaps. And that was UNACCEPTABLE. In 2014, India had just 248 km of Metro lines across 5 cities. Today, we have near...