PM Narendra Modi dedicates five completed projects in TN to nation, lays foundation stones for six others

CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation five completed projects and laid foundation stones for six others at a function in Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Thursday. The total worth of the five completed projects and six others is more than Rs 31,500 crore.
The PM laid the foundation stones for the construction of a 21km-long four-lane double decker elevated road connecting Chennai Port with Maduravoyal at Rs 5,852 crore and a multi-modal logistic park in Chennai at Rs 1,428 crore.
The completed projects like the 30km-long third railway line between Tambaram and Chengalpet, which will help run suburban trains, and Madurai-Theni gauge conversion for about 75km were dedicated to the nation.
The 115km-long Ennore-Chengalpet section and 271km long Tiruvallur-Bengaluru section of the Ennore-Thiruvallur-Bengaluru-Puducherry-Nagapattinam-Madurai-Tuticorin natural gas pipeline were also dedicated to the nation. The natural gas pipelines will enable supply to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
The Prime Minister dedicated 1,152 Light House Project houses at Perumbakkam in Chennai which were built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban. He gave away orders to the beneficiaries.
He laid foundation stones for projects like the 263km-long Chennai-Bengaluru expressway which will reduce travel time between Chennai and Bengaluru by 2-3 hours.
A 95-km-long four-lane Neraluru-Dharmapuri of NH-844 will reduce travel distance by 20km between Bengaluru and Dharmapuri and reduce traffic congestion on NH-44 between Hosur and Krishnagiri.
Two lanes with paved shoulders of the Meensurutti-Chidambaram section of NH-227 will reduce travel time between Trichy and Chidambaram.
That apart, foundation stones were laid for redevelopment of five railway stations -- Chennai Egmore, Rameswaram, Madurai, Katpadi and Kanyakumari -- with separate corridors for arrival and departure.