Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kanpur Nagar in Uttar Pradesh on 30 May 2026 to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects valued at around Rs 20,900 crore covering urban transport, power generation and rail connectivity. The Prime Minister flagged off and inaugurated the Chunniganj to Kanpur Central section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project, developed at a cost of over Rs 2,120 crore, which features 14 stations of which five are underground stations and extends the operational metro corridor deep into the city core, expected to benefit lakhs of daily commuters in the densely populated central business district. On the power front, PM Modi inaugurated the Rs 8,300 crore, 660 MW Panki Thermal Power Extension Project run by Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam, and three 660 MW units of the Ghatampur Thermal Power Project worth Rs 9,330 crore, together adding 2,640 MW of new supercritical thermal capacity to the state grid to support industrial demand and reduce peak shortages. The Prime Minister also inaugurated two rail overbridges at the Panki Power House Railway Crossing and the Panki Dham Crossing on Panki Road, easing surface traffic congestion. The Kanpur visit formed the concluding leg of a two day prime ministerial tour across Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh aggregating over Rs 70,000 crore of development announcements aligned with Viksit Bharat 2047.