Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Chennai on May 26. This will be his first visit since the DMK government under Chief Minister M.K. Stalin assumed office in May last year. In an event scheduled to commence in the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here at 5.45 p.m., the Prime Minister is set to dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone for 11 projects, worth over ₹31,400 crore in the State. Security arrangements have been beefed up in Chennai as a few political parties had announced that they would stage a protest on May 26 and 27, against “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Central government over economic hardship and social disturbances created by right-wing groups in India”.
The Prime Minister would dedicate to the nation four railway projects implemented at a cost of over ₹2,900 crore. They are: the 75-km-long Madurai-Theni (Railway Gauge Conversion Project) built at a cost of over ₹500 crore, the 30-km-long third railway line between Tambaram-Chengalpattu built at a cost of over ₹590 crore, the 115-km-long Ennore-Chengalpattu section at a cost of ₹850 crore and the 271-km-long Tiruvallur-Bengaluru section of a natural gas pipeline at a cost of ₹910 crore.
