Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address approximately 200,000 women from various backgrounds at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Women’s Conference in Thrissur, Kerala on Wednesday.
Banners and signs have been put up in Thrissur city to welcome the Prime Minister. He will participate in road shows and public meetings. Titled “Empowering Women with Modi,” the convention is being held at Thekkinkadu ground today and is organized by the Kerala unit of the BJP to congratulate PM Modi for successfully passing the Women’s Reservation Bill in both houses of Parliament. Women from diverse backgrounds have been invited to attend this meeting.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for multiple development projects worth over 20,000 crore rupees in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. He inaugurated the Demonstration Fast Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (DFRP) at the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam in Chengalpattu district. Built at a cost of approximately 400 crore rupees, this groundbreaking facility has the unique distinction of being the world’s only industrial-scale plant capable of handling both carbide and oxide spent fuels from fast reactors.
He also inaugurated the new terminal building of the Tiruchirappalli International Airport – Tamil Nadu’s second largest terminal in terms of international traffic, after the one in the capital Chennai. The new terminal building has been developed at a cost of over 1,100 crore rupees. The two-level new international terminal can serve more than 4. million passengers annually and approximately 3,500 during peak hours.
Tiruchirappalli International Airport is the second largest airport in terms of international passenger traffic after Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
Prime Minister Modi also inaugurated multiple railway projects worth crores. These include doubling the 41. km Salem-Magnesite Junction-Omalur-Mettur Dam section; doubling the 160 km rail line section from Madurai to Tuticorin; and three projects for rail line electrification: Tiruchchirappalli-Manamadurai-Virudhunagar; Virudhunagar-Tenkasi Junction; Sengottai-Tenkasi Junction; Tirunelveli- Tirunelveli- Tiruchendur.
The rail projects are expected to help improve rail capacity for freight and passengers and contribute to economic development and job creation in Tamil Nadu.