Prime Minister's Office
PM to Visit Chennai on 11 October
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The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to lay the foundation stone, inaugurate, and dedicate multiple development projects valued at over ₹13,000 crore spanning sectors such as metro rail, highways, railways, ports, petroleum, and education. Key projects include the Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch of the Chennai Metro Rail Project Phase II, national highway sections under NH-744 and NH-83, railway infrastructure developments and Amrit Stations, port-related upgrades at Chennai Port, V.O. Chidambaranar Port, and Kamarajar Port, a Lube Oil Base Stocks project at the Manali Refinery, and the dedication of the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at IIT Madras along with associated global scientific atlases.