New Delhi, April 7 -- "I feel blessed to have prayed at the Ramanathaswamy temple today", said Modi, adding that on this special day, he had the opportunity to hand over development projects worth Rs.8,300 crore. He stressed that these rail and road projects will significantly boost connectivity in Tamil Nadu. He congratulated the people in Tamil Nadu for these transformative initiatives.

Noting that Rameswaram is the land of Bharat Ratna Dr. Kalam, whose life demonstrated how science and spirituality complement each other, the Prime Minister said, "the new Pamban bridge to Rameswaram symbolizes the union of technology and tradition". He emphasized that a town thousands of years old is now connected by a 21st-century engineering marvel....