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Rail tracks to canal: Modi inaugurates projects worth Rs 4,400 cr in TN

Prime Minister hands over Arjun Main Battle Tank, developed in Avadi, to the Indian Army

Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally hands over the DRDO developed Arjun Main Battle Tank (MK-1A) to Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane. (ANI)

T E Narasimhan Chennai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated projects worth more than Rs 4,400 crore in Tamil Nadu, visiting the state ahead of assembly elections.

Modi, at event in Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium, handed over the Arjun Main Battle Tank (MK-1A) to the Indian Army. The tank is indigenously designed and developed at Avadi near Chennai. He later paid floral tributes to the portraits of late AIADMK leaders and former Chief Ministers M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa.

He inaugurated the 9.05-km long extension of Chennai Metro Rail Phase-I, which will cost Rs 3,770 crore to link North Chennai with the airport

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