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The revised cost estimates have significantly increased the project outlay. Initially pegged at ₹15,000 crore for the 161.518-km stretch, the cost has now risen by nearly ₹9,000 crore, sources added.


The AIADMK leaders feel that since the TVK will anyway manage to cobble up the numbers required to form government; they themselves could volunteer to bail out the party by extending support and facilitating the formation of the government.