PM launches projects worth Rs 3,800 crore in Karnataka

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated and laid the foundation for a slew of mechanisation and industrialisation projects worth around Rs 3,800 crore at Mangaluru, Karnataka.

One of them, worth over Rs 280 crore, was for mechanisation of a berth for handling containers and other cargo undertaken by the New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA).

He laid the foundation of five projects worth around Rs 1,000 crore undertaken by the port. The Prime Minister inaugurated two more projects undertaken by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited — BS VI upgradation project and a desalination plant worth Rs 1,830 crore and Rs 680 crore respectively.