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Former Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to mislead the people of the Union Territory.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, he said Mr. Modi, during his visit to Puducherry on Thursday, gave the people a wrong impression that the Centre had invested in projects worth ₹4,000 crore.
He said that of the ₹2,426 crore Sattanathapuram-Nagapattinam four-lane road work, which the Prime Minister inaugurated, only 2% passed through the Karaikal region. The project was approved by the United Progressive Alliance government in 2014.
The Mairie Building, inaugurated by the Prime Minister, was renovated using funds sanctioned by the World Bank. The construction of a JIPMER building at Karaikal and a minor port at Puducherry were sanctioned four years ago by the Centre on the request of the territorial administration, he said. “He completely tried to mislead the people by makin
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for 4 laning of NH45-A covering Karaikal District and Medical College Building at Karaikal New Campus- Phase I, Karaikal District (JIPMER). He also laid the foundation stone for development of Minor Port at Puducherry under Sagarmala Scheme and Synthetic Athletic Track, Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, Puducherry.
Shri Modi inaugurated the Blood Centre at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry and a 100 bed girls’ hostel at Lawspet, Puducherry for female athletes. He also inaugurated the reconstructed Heritage Marie Building.
The Prime Minister said this land of Puducherry has been home to sages, scholars and poets and also to revolutionaries like Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi and Sri Aurobindo. Admiring Puducherry as a symbol of diversity, he said here people speak different languages, practice different faiths but live as one.