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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) launched improvement projects worthy implicit ₹830 crore successful West Bengal and flagged disconnected 3 Amrit Bharat trains connecting Kolkata with different parts of the country.
At a relation successful Hooghly district's Singur, the premier curate besides inaugurated the Jayrambati-Barogopinathpur-Maynapur obstruction line, and flagged disconnected a bid betwixt Maynapur and Jayrambati.
"All cardinal projects volition accelerate the improvement of West Bengal. The cardinal authorities is moving to conscionable the extremity of a developed eastbound India," Mr. Modi said portion addressing the programme.
The PM laid the instauration chromatic for the Extended Port Gate System, including an Inland Water Transport (IWT) terminal and a roadworthy implicit bridge, astatine Balagarh successful Hooghly district, according to a connection issued by PMO.
Spread implicit astir 900 acres of land, Balagarh is being developed arsenic a modern cargo handling terminal with an envisaged capableness of astir 2.7 cardinal tonnes per annum (MTPA).
The Balagarh task aims to importantly amended cargo evacuation ratio by diverting vas question distant from congested municipality corridors.
Mr. Modi besides flagged disconnected 3 Amrit Bharat Express trains connecting Kolkata with New Delhi, Varanasi and Chennai.
These trains volition tally connected the Howrah-Anand Vihar Terminal, Sealdah-Banaras, and Santragachi-Tambaram routes.
