TN CM bats for Bengaluru-Hosur metro, economic clusters
CHENNAI: Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday pressed greater cooperation among the southern states in building common economic and infrastructure networks, pitching the proposed Bengaluru Metro extension to Hosur as a model for inter-state development.
CHENNAI: Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday pressed greater cooperation among the southern states in building common economic and infrastructure networks, pitching the proposed Bengaluru Metro extension to Hosur as a model for inter-state development.
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- "Such an integrated approach would reduce the cost of doing business, boost exports, attract investment and spread industrial growth to smaller towns, " he continued.
- I urge that it be carried forward expeditiously with the backing of the Union and both state governments.
- He additionally called on an integrated southern approach to the maritime economy, covering ports, coastal shipping, fisheries, marine industries, maritime services and coastal tourism.
Addressing the 31st session of the Southern Zonal Council (SZC) chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Kovalam, the chief minister proposed that the council champions common economic and logistics clusters comprising integrated manufacturing zones, shared multimodal logistics parks and seamless freight and industrial corridors linking production centres with ports and global markets.
TN CM Vijay seeks assurance that South will not lose parliamentary representation Vijay specifically backed the proposed extension of the Bengaluru Metro from Bommasandra in Karnataka to Hosur in Tamil Nadu, describing it as a model of what cooperative infrastructure throughout state borders could achieve. "I urge that it be carried forward expeditiously with the backing of the Union and both state governments. Let it be the first of plenty of such connections throughout the south, " the CM continued.
He additionally called on an integrated southern approach to the maritime economy, covering ports, coastal shipping, fisheries, marine industries, maritime services and coastal tourism. With Tamil Nadu having a 1, 076-km coastline that borders Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Kerala, he remarked TN is ready to partner with its.
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