Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Chennai Metro Rail Phase-I extension on February 14. The total project cost Rs 3770 crores.<br />This 9.05 km long extension will link North Chennai with the Airport and Central Railway Station. PM Modi also inaugurated the fourth Railway line between Chennai Beach and Attipattu. <br />This 22.1 km section, laid at a cost of Rs 293.40 crores, traverses through Chennai and Thiruvallur Districts. PM Modi lays the foundation stone for the Discovery Campus of IIT Madras.<br />The Campus will be built at Thaiyur near Chennai at an estimated cost of Rs 1000 crores in the first phase, over an area of 2 lakh sqm.
