Bhubaneswar, Jan. 18 -- Ahmedabad: Work is in progress on over 1,000 km long metro rail network in 27 cities in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.

He was speaking after performing the ground breaking ceremony of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and Surat Metro Rail Project via video conferencing.

"There was a time when there was no modern thinking and policy on metro in our country. The result was that there was a different (type of) metro in each city," Modi said.

There was no uniformity then on the metro trains which started in different cities. There was no integration of metro with other modes of transport back then," he said.

Now, an integrated approach has been brought in so that various modes of transp...