The 529-km SilverLine railway project will link Thiruvananthapuram in the south to Kasaragod in north Kerala, covering 11 districts through 11 stations.
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PM to inaugurate, lay foundation stone of key projects of power, urban sector in Kerala on Feb 19 ANI | Updated: Feb 18, 2021 00:31 IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of key projects of power and urban sector in Kerala on Friday at 4:30 pm via video conferencing.
Chief Minister of Kerala, along with Union Ministers of State (I/C) for Power and New and Renewable Energy, and Housing and Urban Affairs, will also be present on the occasion.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the 320 KV Pugalur (Tamil Nadu) - Thrissur (Kerala) power transmission project. It is a Voltage Source Convertor (VSC) based High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) project and has India s first HVDC link featuring state-of-the-art VSC technology.
Months ahead of the assembly elections, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic government in Kerala on Thursday announced Rs 10,000 crore worth development projects would either be completed or launched in the next 100 days in the state. It also enhanced welfare pension and extended the distribution of the free provision kit for ration card holders, a hit among the commoners, for another four months from January. Assembly elections are likely to be held in the state in April-May 2021. Making the announcements, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Left government could successfully complete 570 of the total 600 poll promises mentioned in the LDF s election manifesto besides hundreds of other projects not part of it since 2016.