Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport, developed by Adani Airports Holdings under the Public-Private Partnership model at a cost of ₹19,650 crore. In the same programme, he also inaugurated Phase 2B of Mumbai Metro Line-3. This phase connects Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade, while the complete Line-3 runs 33.5 kilometres with 27 stations from Cuffe Parade to Aarey Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road. The corridor is expected to serve approximately 13 lakh commuters every day. The Prime Minister also launched the Mumbai One integrated mobility application, which brings public transport booking across metro, monorail, suburban railways and bus services onto an integrated mobility platform.
For exams, remember it as a combined urban-transport package: a ₹19,650 crore Public-Private Partnership airport project, a 33.5-km metro corridor and the Mumbai One digital-ticketing app. In prelims, direct facts such as project cost, route length, number of stations, expected daily commuters, developer and the name of the launched application can be asked. In mains, it can be used as an example for decongesting large cities, expanding public transport access, using private capital for infrastructure and integrating urban mobility services. Its static-GK linkage lies in airport infrastructure, metro projects, the Public-Private Partnership model and urban governance. The core takeaway is that this was not just an airport inauguration, but an infrastructure package combining aviation capacity, metro connectivity and digital ticketing for the Mumbai region.