New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of key projects of power and urban sectors in poll-bound Kerala on Friday via video conferencing.
The Prime Ministers Office said Modi will inaugurate 320KV Pugalur (Tamil Nadu)-Thrissur (Kerala) power transmission project. The voltage source convertor (VSC)-based high voltage direct current (HVDC) project has India’s first HVDC link featuring state-of-the-art VSC technology.
Built at ₹5,070 crore, it will facilitate transfer of 2000MW power from the western region and help meet the growth in load for Keralites.
PMO said he will also launch the 50MW Kasaragod solar power project, which has been developed under the national solar energy mission.
Set up over 250 acres spread across Paivalike, Meenja and Chippar villages of Kasaragod, it has been built with a central government investment of around ₹280 crore.
Among other projects, he will lay the foundation stone of the integrated command and control centre at Thiruvananthapuram.
Projected to be built at ₹94 crore, the centre is being set up to host smart solutions for Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, and will act as a common point of action during emergency situations.
Besides, he will also lay the foundation stone of the smart roads project in Thiruvananthapuram, which has a budget of ₹427 crore and envisages converting 37km of existing roads to world-class smart roads.
Modi will also inaugurate a 75 million litres per day water treatment plant at Aruvikkara, built under the AMRUT Mission.