{"id":331005,"date":"2021-02-14T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331005"},"modified":"2021-02-14T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T04:57:18","slug":"pm-modi-in-tamil-nadu-kerala-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-in-tamil-nadu-kerala-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi in Tamil Nadu, Kerala today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330276 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/modi-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/modi-7.jpg 578w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/modi-7-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/modi-7-495x420.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the official release, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the Chennai Metro Rail Phase-I extension, completed at a cost of Rs. 3770 crore, and commission the passenger services from Washermenpet to Wimco Nagar. This 9.05 km long extension will link North Chennai with the Airport and Central Railway Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister will inaugurate the fourth Railway line between Chennai Beach and Attipattu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi will also inaugurate the Railway Electrification of single line section in Villupuram &#8211; Cuddalore &#8211; Mayiladuthurai &#8211; Thanjavur and Mayiladuthurai-Thiruvarur. Completed at a cost of\u00a0 Rs. 423\u00a0 crore, the electrification of this 228 km route will enable free flow of traffic without the need for a change of traction between Chennai Egmore and Kanyakumari and would result in saving of Rs.14.61 lakh per day on fuel cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the event, the Prime Minister will hand over the State-of-the-Art Arjun Main Battle Tank (MK-1A) to the Indian Army. This Battle Tank has been indigenously designed, developed and manufactured by CVRDE, DRDO along with 15 academic institutions, 8 labs and several MSMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for the extension, renovation and modernization of the Grand Anicut Canal System.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi will also lay the foundation stone for the Discovery Campus of IIT Madras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Kerala, PM Modi will dedicate to the nation the Propylene Derivative Petrochemical Project (PDPP) of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL); Ro-Ro Vessels at Willingdon Islands, Cochin; International Cruise Terminal \u201cSagarika\u201d at Cochin Port; Marine Engineering Training Institute, Vigyana Sagar, Cochin Shipyard Limited and lay the foundation stone of Reconstruction of South Coal Berth at Cochin Port.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala today.\u00a0 According to the official release, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the Chennai Metro Rail Phase-I extension, completed at a cost of Rs. 3770 crore, and commission the passenger services from Washermenpet to Wimco Nagar. This 9.05 km long extension will link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[466,316,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331006,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331005\/revisions\/331006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}