PM Narendra Modi flags off Amrit Bharat train in Thuruvananthapuram.
Credit: ANI
Thiruvananthapuram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (January 23) flagged off four new trains and launched several development initiatives in Kerala.
Thiruvananthapuram-Tambaram, Thiruvananthapuram North (Kochuveli)-Charlapalli and Nagercoil-Mangaluru Amrit Bharat express trains and Thrissur-Guruvayur passenger trains were flagged off at a function in Thiruvananthapuram.
He also launched the PM SVANidhi credit card and disbursal of PM SVANidhi loans to one lakh beneficiaries and laid the foundation stone for the CSIR-NIIST Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Hub and Radio surgery centre at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technologies in Thiruvananthapuram.
Speaking on the occasion, Modi said that Vikasit Bharat would become possible only through Vikasit Kerala. The various projects launched during the day would boost Kerala's development, he said.
Modi repeatedly addresses audience as 'ente suhruthukale' in Malayalam, meaning my friends.