Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurates, lays foundation stone, flags off various development projects worth more than ₹830 crore in Singur, West Bengal

• On 18 January 2026, PM Modi inaugurated, laid foundation stones and flagged off development projects worth over ₹830 crore at Singur, Hooghly district, West Bengal.
• Centrepiece: foundation stone of the Extended Port Gate System at Balagarh — a multimodal inland waterway cargo terminal on National Waterway-1 (Ganga–Bhagirathi–Hooghly).
• Bundled with railway expansions: first Vande Bharat Sleeper (Howrah–Kamakhya) flagged off the previous day and three new Amrit Bharat Express services.
• Relevance: case-study of PM Gati Shakti / multi-modal connectivity, Sagarmala-style port-led development on inland waterways, and Eastern India growth push.