TUTICORIN, July 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated, laid foundation stones and dedicated projects worth Rs 4,900 crore in Tamil Nadu.
The projects are related to airport, highways, railways, port and power in Tamil Nadu.
The inaugurated projects include a new state-of-the-art Tuticorin airport terminal building, developed at an estimated cost of around Rs 450 crore.
The new terminal has a built up area of over 17,000 square meters and allied infrastructure, including a new ATC tower cum technical block, extension of runway to 3,115 meters from existing 1,350 meters to accommodate larger aircraft.
The new airport terminal is capable of serving 20 lakh passengers annually, six times more than the existing capacity.
As regards railway projects, it includes the electrification of the 90 km Madurai-Bodinayakkanur line, commissioned at a cost of Rs 99 Crore.
The Rs 650 crore worth doubling of the 21 km Nagercoil Town-Kanniyakumari section, the doubling of the Aralvaymozhi-Nagercoil Junction (12.87 km) and Tirunelveli-Melappalaiyam (3.6 km) sections at a cost of Rs 283 crore are the other projects.
The PM dedicated to the nation two strategically significant highway projects – 4-laning of 50 km Sethiyathope-Cholapuram stretch of NH-36, developed at a cost Rs 2,350 crore and 6-laning of the 5.16 km NH-138 Tuticorin Port Road, built at around Rs 200 crore. He inaugurated the North Cargo Berth-III with a cargo handling capacity of 6.96 MMTPA at V O Chidambaranar Port established at a cost of Rs 285 crore. (PTI)
