New Delhi, April 4 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tamil Nadu on April 6, coinciding with Ram Navami, to inaugurate the New Pamban Rail Bridge, and flag off the Rameswaram-Tambaram train service, the government announced in an official release on Friday.

According to the PIB release, PM Modi will inaugurate the new Pamban Rail Bridge around noon on Sunday. The New Pamdan Bridge is India's first vertical lift sea bridge.

PM Modi will also flag off the Rameswaram-Tambaram (Chennai) new train service and a ship from the road bridge and witness the operation of the bridge.

The New Pamban Bridge will replace the old 1914-built bridge, which served for over a century before being closed in 2022 due to corrosion problems.

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