<h1>Feasibility study engagement for an economic corridor advances infrastructure planning and enables targeted financing support.</h1> Government concurrence was granted to engage a multilateral development bank to conduct a feasibility study and prepare a Conceptual Development Plan for the East Coast Economic Corridor linking Kolkata through Chennai to Tuticorin; the bank submitted a final plan for the Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor, master planning for two nodes has begun, the bank approved loans and grants for VCIC infrastructure, and agreed to a feasibility study for inclusion of Puducherry as a node.