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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday will be inaugurating the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project at around 1.30 pm. The Kanpur Metro Rail Project's 9 km long section stretches from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel.
PM Modi will also inspect the Metro Rail Project and undertake a metro ride from the IIT metro station to Geeta Nagar.
Besides, the Metro Rail Project, Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Bina-Panki Multiproduct Pipeline Project on Tuesday, December 28. It's a 356 km long project with a capacity of around 3.45 million metric tonne per annum. Extending from Bina refinery in Madhya Pradesh to Panki in Kanpur, the project has been built at a cost of over ₹1,500 crore. It will help the region access petroleum products from the Bina refinery
PM Modi will also attend the 54th Convocation Ceremony of IIT Kanpur.
During the convocation, all the students will be issued digital degrees through an in-house blockchain-driven technology developed at the Institute under the National Blockchain Project. PM Modi will launch blockchain-based digital degrees.
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