New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address PM SVANidhi Beneficiaries at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi today. During the programme, Prime Minister Modi will distribute loans under the scheme to 1 lakh street vendors, including five thousand vendors from Delhi. Mr Modi will also lay the foundation stone of two additional corridors of Delhi Metro’s Phase 4. These corridors will be the Lajpat Nagar to Saket-G Block Corridor and Inderlok to Indraprastha Corridor, with a combined length of over 20 kilometres.
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proposed corridors are expected to improve connectivity and reduce traffic congestion. The stations on the Lajpat Nagar to Saket G- Block corridor will include Lajpat Nagar, Andrews Ganj, Greater Kailash – 1, Chirag Delhi, Pushpa Bhawan, Saket District Centre, Pushp Vihar and Saket G – Block. The stations on the Inderlok – Indraprastha corridor will include Inderlok, Daya Basti, Sarai Rohilla, Ajmal Khan Park, Nabi Karim, New Delhi, LNJP Hospital, Delhi Gate, Delhi Sachivalaya and Indraprastha.