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The Centre has approved ₹600 crore for taking up enlargement works successful Puducherry Airport, Union Minister of State for Information L. Murugan said present connected Saturday.
Briefing reporters connected 12 years of Narendra Modi’s tenure arsenic the Prime Minister of the country, the Union Minister said aft the archetypal National Democratic Alliance authorities assumed bureau successful Puducherry successful the 2021 Assembly elections, the Centre has taken up respective crores of infrastructure projects.
Puducherry volition proceed to get funds for the improvement of the airport, people separator task linking Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi squares, multi-organ transplant centre of Jipmer, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and different programmes, the Union Minister said.
Minister A. Namassivayam said the Ministry of Home Affairs has approved authorisation of funds to the tune of ₹600 crore for airdrome expansion. “The administrative process is connected astatine the Ministry level for the authorisation of funds,” helium added.
Mr. Murugan said successful the past 5 years, the Union Territory has received ₹15,000 crore arsenic Special Central Assistance. The SEZ astatine Sedarapet- Karasur villages would bring successful immense concern and would pave mode for providing nonstop employment to astir 10,000 people, helium said.
The Home Ministry has precocious sanctioned a 2nd India Reserve Battalion for Puducherry. The sanctioning of the portion would assistance astir 1,000 section younker successful getting inducted to the force, helium added.
The Minister visited the Puducherry Railway Station wherever works taken up astatine a outgo of astir ₹92 crore were nether mode arsenic portion of presumption modernisation and betterment of operational capabilities. He besides participated successful assorted programmes, including planting of saplings, to people 12 years of Mr. Modi. BJP president V. P. Ramalingam and erstwhile Speaker R. Selvam were present.
