Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday inaugurate the Kanpur Metro rail project in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city and will also attend the convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) today, his office has announced.

The new 9km long section stretches from IIT-Kanpur to Moti Jheel in the city.

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According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi will also undertake a ride from the IIT Metro station to Geeta Nagar after the inauguration.

Hindustan Times reported that the entire length of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project is 32km and is being built at a cost of over Rs 11,000 crore.

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At the 54th convocation ceremony of IIT Kanpur, 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 the blockchain-based digital degrees, which can be verified globally and are unforgeable.

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Later, PM Modi is also scheduled to inaugurate the 356km long Bina-Panki multi product pipeline project. The project has a capacity of around 3.45 million metric tonnes per annum, according to the PMO statement.