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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch infrastructure and housing projects worth about Rs 41,000 crore in the state on Tuesday, said officials on the eve of his visit.Soon after reaching the state capital in the morning, Modi is to attend an event organised by a TV channel and release the book ‘Timeless Laxman’ at Raj Bhavan later.He will then go to Kalyan to lay the foundation stone for the Rs 8,416-crore, 24.9 km Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan Metro 5 and Rs 6,607 crore, 10.3 km Dahisar-Mira-Bhayander Metro 9. The corridor will have 17 stations.The elevated Dahisar-Mira Bhayander Metro 9 corridor, comprising eight stations, is expected to be completed by 2022, and the cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 6,607 crore.The Metro 9 will be integrated with the Metro 7 (Dahisar to Andheri ) and Metro 2A (Dahisar to DN Road) and the Rs 3,600 crore Gaimukh-Shivaji Chowk (Mira Road) Metro 10.Modi will fly to Delhi from Pune on Tuesday night, said an official. Both are MMRDA projects.Modi will then proceed to Pune, where he will lay the foundation stone for the Rs 8,313-crore, 23 km third Metro line between Hinjewadi and Shivajinagar, being implemented by Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority on a public-private partnership basis.The third Metro line in Pune between Hinjewadi and Shivajinagar will connect the busy information technology (IT) district with Shivajinagar, where the other two Metro lines will also join.The Kalyan event will also see the launch of the Rs 18,000 crore mass housing scheme of the Navi Mumbai planning body City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), which offers 89,771 affordable homes under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.The Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan Metro 5 is expected to carry around 2.29 lakh commuters daily in 2021, with the entire system designed for six-coach trains..