India
pti-PTI
Pune,
Mar
6:
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
on
Sunday
unveiled
a
statue
of
Chhatrapati
Shivaji
Maharaj
in
the
premises
of
Pune
Municipal
Company.
The
statue
is
made
up
of
1,850
kg
of
gunmetal
and
is
about
9.5-feet
tall.
Pune
Mayor
Murlidhar
Mohol
greeted
Modi
on
his
arrival
at
the
municipal
company
headquarters
right here
and
provided
him
a
specifically
crafted
headgear.
The
PM
additionally
paid
floral
tributes
to
the
statue
of
social
reformer
Mahatma
Jyotiba
Phule
at
the
civic
headquarters.
Earlier,
Maharashtra
Governor
Bhagat
Singh
Koshyari,
state
cupboard
minister
and
senior
Shiv
Sena
chief
Subhash
Desai,
Chief
of
Opposition
in
the
Meeting
Devendra
Fadnavis
and
BJP
state
president
Chandrakant
Patil
welcomed
Modi
after
he
landed
at
the
Lohegaon
Worldwide
Airport
right here.
The
prime
minister
will
additionally
inaugurate
the
Pune
metro
rail’s
two
precedence
stretches
of
12
km,
out
of
the
complete
32.2
km
undertaking
in
the
metropolis.
The
basis
stone
of
the
metro
undertaking
was
additionally
laid
by
Modi
on
Dec
24,
2016.
The
complete
metro
undertaking
is
being
constructed
at
the
value
of
extra
than
Rs
11,400
crore.