As part of a busy schedule drawn up for him during his day-long visit to Maharashtra on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone for upcoming first-ever Metro Corridors in Thane district. He will also launch a housing scheme of 90,000 homes and also perform “bhoomi puja” for Pune Metro Rail Phase-3.

At Kalyan in the neighbouring Thane district, Modi will lay foundation stone for the Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan Metro and the Dahisar-Mira-Bhayander Metro corridor projects to ease the transportation problems in the two urban pockets located in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. He will also launch a housing scheme of 90,000 homes for the poor sections of society at the same venue, constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).

Modi will later head to Pune, where he will perform ground breaking ceremony for the Pune Metro Rail Phase 3 and address a public meeting.

Earlier in the morning, the Prime Minister would speak at the Republic Summit organised by Republic TV, a private news channel.

Subsequently, Modi will he will release a book entitled ‘Timeless Laxman’ based on the life and little known facets of the legendary cartoonist, the late R K Laxman, at Raj Bhavan. The book has been penned by his daughter-in-law, Usha Srinivas Laxman.

It may be recalled that Laxman — best known for his creation The Common Man  for his daily cartoon strip, “ You Said it “You Said It” in The Times of India which started in 1951—passed away at a Pune hospital on January 26, 2015.

Modi, who will arrive in Mumbai at 8 am on Tuesday, will wind up his day-long visit to Maharashtra after addressing a public rally at Pune late in the evening.