{"id":108826,"date":"2021-02-16T07:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=108826"},"modified":"2021-02-16T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:20:47","slug":"kochi-water-metro-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kochi-water-metro-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi Water Metro project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which Indian state has become the first Indian state to have a water metro project?<br><\/strong>a) Kerala<br>b) Tamil Nadu<br>c) Maharashtra<br>d) Karnataka<br><strong>Ans: a)<br>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 15th February 2021, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the first route and terminal buildings of the Kochi Water Metro project.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This project is for connecting the islands around the city using state-of-the-art boats.<\/li><li>Water Metro project, which is funded partly by the state government and the German financing agency KfW, will have a total of 16 routes, connecting 38 terminals using 78 AC and non-AC boats.<\/li><li>1st route which was inaugurated by CM, connects Vyttila which is one of the busiest traffic hubs in Kerala to Kakkanad which is a IT hub.<\/li><li>The first phase of the Kochi Water Metro project is 520 km long.<\/li><li>Commercial operations of the metro will start in March 2021 after it gets the statutory clearance certificate.<\/li><li>He also launched the Integrated Urban Regeneration and Water Transport System (IURWT) project. IURWT project will renew and rejuvenate the six major canals of 34 km in Kochi.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By kameshwar shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/kerala\/kerala-cm-unveils-route-terminal-buildings-of-kochi-water-metro-project-7189827\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/kerala\/kerala-cm-unveils-route-terminal-buildings-of-kochi-water-metro-project-7189827\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which Indian state has become the first Indian state to have a water metro project?a) Keralab) Tamil Naduc) Maharashtrad) KarnatakaAns: a)Context On 15th February 2021, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the first route and terminal buildings of the Kochi Water Metro project. Facts This project is for connecting the islands around the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":108827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-108826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108828,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108826\/revisions\/108828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}