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Modi Launches Tamil Nadu Projects Worth Over Rs 13,000 Crore
Narendra Modi announced and opened development projects across Tamil Nadu.
Their total value is more than Rs 13,000 crore.
The projects include work on roads, ports and railway stations.
Modi and Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay also opened a new part of the Chennai Metro.
That Metro stretch is about 15 kilometres long and has 11 elevated stations.
It cost around Rs 4,900 crore.
At IIT Madras, Modi dedicated a centre that studies human brains.
He also released a detailed atlas made from sections of a brain affected by stroke, which researchers can use to study the condition.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and launched projects worth more than Rs 13,000 crore across Tamil Nadu.
The projects include around Rs 3,700 crore in National Highways work, port initiatives and Amrit railway stations.
Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay inaugurated a stretch of Chennai Metro Phase II and flagged off new services.
The Poonamallee–Vadapalani Metro stretch cost around Rs 4,900 crore and includes 11 elevated stations over approximately 15 km.
Modi dedicated IIT Madras’s Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre and released C-STROKE, an atlas of a stroke-affected brain.
- Who
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay.
- What
- They inaugurated and launched development projects worth over Rs 13,000 crore, including a Chennai Metro stretch and research initiatives at IIT Madras.
- Where
- Tamil Nadu, including Chennai and IIT Madras.
- When
- Sunday, October 11; the article does not specify the year.
- Why
- The article describes development projects in transport and petroleum sectors and research resources for brain and stroke studies.
Key facts
- Total project value
- More than Rs 13,000 crore
- National Highways projects
- Around Rs 3,700 crore
- Chennai Metro Phase II stretch
- Poonamallee–Vadapalani; around Rs 4,900 crore
- Metro stretch details
- 11 elevated stations across approximately 15 km
- Brain centre
- Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at IIT Madras
- C-STROKE
- An ischaemic stroke atlas featuring over 1,000 annotated microscopic sections from a stroke-affected brain
Sources
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