Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Rs 29.17 billion U-field onshore deep-water block project of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Andhra Pradesh. It is the deepest gas discovery, with a production potential of about 3 million metric standard cubic metres per day. The Prime Minister in all launched nine projects worth Rs 152.33 billion in virtual mode. These include inaugurating a 39-km section of NH-326A built at a cost of Rs 2.11 billion as part of the Srikakulam-Gajapati Corridor, as well as the AP section of the six-lane 100-km access-controlled greenfield Raipur-Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor of NH-130CD built at a cost of Rs 37.78 billion.
