The BEST on Wednesday announced new bus routes to sync with the two Metro rail corridors that are to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.

The prime minister will flag off various civic projects, including sewage treatment plants, hospital buildings, concretisation of roads and 20 health clinics, at a rally on the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority ground at Bandra Kurla Complex in the evening. He will also initiate the Pradhan Mantri Pathakreta 
Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme under which loans will be disbursed to more than one lakh hawkers.