India, Sept. 28 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone and inaugurated development projects in Odisha worth over '50,000 crore across telecommunications, railways, higher education, healthcare, skill development and rural housing sectors.

The PM laid the foundation stone for '11,000 crore infrastructure expansion projects in eight IITs - Tirupati, Palakkad, Bhilai, Jammu, Dharwad, Jodhpur, Patna and Indore - in order to increase 12,000 seats over the next four years.

PM Modi also laid the foundation stone for the construction of a rail flyover between Sambalpur City and Sarala at an investment of '273 crore, and for the setting up of a semiconductor and electronic system design and manufacturing park in co...