Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday (November 22, 2025) wrote a detailed letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing disappointment and anguish over the rejection of the proposals for Metro Rail systems in Coimbatore and Madurai and urged him to instruct the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to reconsider the decision.

“Tamil Nadu, being the most urbanised State in the country with a high per capita private vehicle ownership, needs high-capacity public transport alternatives in all its large growth engine cities. Towards this, we had prepared the DPRs for Coimbatore and Madurai Metro Rails and forwarded the same to MoHUA for approval,” Mr. Stalin said in his letter.

“Considering the high priority accorded to these two projects, we were continuously follo

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