{"id":1003910,"date":"2026-04-20T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003910"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:44:03","slug":"dmk-vows-rs-10k-crore-ai-facility-in-chennai-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/dmk-vows-rs-10k-crore-ai-facility-in-chennai-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"DMK vows Rs 10K-crore AI facility in Chennai manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday released a Chennai-specific manifesto, promising 1,000 minibuses, metro rail expansion by 2028, and a special centre for artificial intelligence (AI), animation, gaming, and visual effects at an investment of Rs 10,000 crore, among others. <\/p>\n<p>In the manifesto, the DMK has promised to improve common facilities in urban residential complexes through the Urban Welfare Board\u2019s Women\u2019s Welfare Sangam, sanitise drinking water in areas not yet connected to Metro Water supply and expand Metro Water coverage to existing residents, install high-intensity streetlights across all residential zones, and set up a dedicated international-standard cultural centre for art, music and literature events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday released a Chennai-specific manifesto, promising 1,000 minibuses, metro rail expansion by 2028, and a special centre for artificial intelligence (AI), animation, gaming, and visual effects at an investment of Rs 10,000 crore, among others. In the manifesto, the DMK has promised to improve common facilities in urban residential complexes through the Urban Welfare Board\u2019s Women\u2019s Welfare Sangam, sanitise drinking water in areas not yet connected to Metro Water supply and expand Metro Water coverage to existing residents, install high-intensity streetlights across all residential zones, and set up a dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}