Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the country's longest sea bridge Atal Setu to the public in Mumbai today. Along with this, he will inaugurate the 27th National Youth Festival in Nashik and launch development projects worth more than Rs 30,500 crore.

Atal Setu, built at a cost of thousands of crores, will connect Mumbai to Navi Mumbai. This bridge will become a new lifeline for the country's financial capital Mumbai, while it is a new example of India's development in the field of infrastructure. According to an estimate, about 70 thousand people will travel through the bridge every day. There are 400 cameras installed here, apart from this, AI based sensors are installed to gather information about traffic pressure.

Atal Setu is 21.8 km long

It has been prepared at a cost of Rs 17,840 crore

The foundation stone was laid in December 2016

16.5 km is built on sea and 5.5 km on land.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address more than one lakh youth on Friday on Youth Day. National Youth Festival is being organized in Nashik, Maharashtra on the 161st birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. A fair of youth from all over the country will be organized in Kumbh Nagri, whose chief guest will be PM Modi. The theme of the program has been kept for the youth, by the youth. All the youth will gather here and take a pledge to make India a developed nation by 2047. The Union Minister said, more than one lakh youth will be there to listen to the PM directly, while youth from all the districts of the country will listen to the Prime Minister through live conferencing.