Mumbai, September 1: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis shared a video in which he features alongside Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to promote the Mumbai Metro coming up in 'Maximum City'. The video shows the traffic problem in Mumbai and how daily commuters have to spend hours on the road. This leads to them losing essential hours that Mumbaikars could have spent with their family members and in more productive activities. Mumbai Metro 3 Completes First Underground Tunnel Project, Devendra Fadnavis Calls It 'Breakthrough'.

The 340 kilometre MMRDA Metro line under construction is built to connect Mumbai like never before. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan feature in the video. The video aims to capture the idea behind the Metro project - 'Mumbai in Minutes'. It also shows an animated map and route to show the reach of the Mumbai Metro project coming up. An aerial shot of the Bandra-Worli sealink features at the beginning of the video and congested roads shown to underline the importance of Metro line that aims to free Mumbai roads of traffic jams and reduce burden on Mumbai local trains. Amitabh Bachchan Waterfall: Big B Shocked to Know About Sikkim Falls is Named After Him.

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The model of coaches for Mumbai Metro line-3 was unveiled by the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday. According to Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd, MML-3 is a 33.5 km long underground corridor running along Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ (Santacruz Electronics Export Processing Zone, Andheri East). Length of the corridor is marked with 27 key stations out of which 26 will be underground. CMO of Maharashtra tweeted, “CM Devendra Fadnavis unveiled a model of rolling stock for Metro-3 at Mumbai. Metro line 3 will be called the Aqua line.”

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