Modi launches projects worth ₹20,000cr in TN

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Wednesday, 3 January 2024

The idea of a developed India includes both economic and cultural progress, and this growth is incomplete without Tamil Nadu which is an icon of social and cultural legacy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, as he opened a new airport and addressed a university convocation in the southern state.

The PM also said that he was deeply moved by the lives lost during the torrential rain and flooding in Tamil Nadu in December, and that the central government stood with the people of the state “in this time of crisis”.

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Modi launches projects worth ₹20,000cr in TN

The idea of a developed India includes both economic and cultural progress, and this growth is incomplete without Tamil Nadu which is an icon of social and cultural legacy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, as he opened a new airport and addressed a university convocation in the southern state.

Modi made the comments in two separate functions in Tiruchirapalli, first at the convocation of the Bharatidasan University, and then at the inauguration of the new ₹1,100-crore Tiruchirapalli International Airport. On the first day of a two-day trip to southern India that will include travel to Kerala and Lakshwadeep, Modi also inaugurated projects worth over ₹20,000 crore in Tamil Nadu, including several railway, roads, port, and petroleum and natural gas projects. Read more.

THE BIG QUESTION

What has been the effect of the truckers’ strike?

Fuel stations ran dry and wholesale vegetable markets received a fraction of the commodities they usually do as several parts of the country were on Tuesday hit by the second day of a three-day strike by truck drivers protesting harsher new penalties for hit-and-run offences in the new crime code.

The Union government opened talks with association leaders, with the home ministry issuing appeals for the truck drivers to return to work after promising detailed discussions will be held before the new stringent new legal provisions take effect. Read more.

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