Assam infrastructure: PM Modi to unveil initiatives value Rs 18,000cr in Assam: Himanta

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay basis stones of initiatives value round Rs 18,000 crore throughout his two-day tour of Assam beginning Friday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated. Addressing a press meet right here on Thursday, Sarma stated Modi will, for the primary time, go to UNESCO heritage website Kaziranga Nationwide Park and undertake a safari.

“The PM will inaugurate and lay basis stones of a mixture of state and central initiatives value round Rs 18,000 crore,” he stated.

On February 4, the prime minister had launched infrastructure initiatives value Rs 11,600 crore. He’s prone to lay the inspiration stone of a Rs 27,000-crore semiconductor plant of the Tata Group on March 13.

Giving particulars of his tour programme, Sarma stated Modi will arrive in Assam on Friday afternoon and can spend the night time on the Kohora vary of Kaziranga Nationwide Park, he added.

“He’s scheduled to land at Tezpur airport at 4 pm and attain Kaziranga by a chopper. Round 5.30am on Saturday, he’ll enter the park and can keep there for round two hours,” Sarma stated.

The Assam authorities has stored each jeep and elephant safaris prepared for Modi, who will get pleasure from any of the rides or each, he added. “This would be the first go to of Modi to the world heritage website. And I consider he should be the primary prime minister to remain in a single day at Kaziranga, however I’ve to verify the information,” Sarma stated. After this, the PM will depart for Arunachal Pradesh, the place he’ll attend two features earlier than returning to Assam’s Jorhat district, he added.

“After touchdown at Hollongapar helipad, he’ll inaugurate the 125-foot tall statue of Ahom basic Lachit Borphukan. The statue, constructed by Ram Vanji Sutar, has a peak of 84 ft. With the pedestal measuring 41 ft, the whole peak of the statue stands at 125 ft,” Sarma stated.

In February 2022, then President Ram Nath Kovind had launched the four-hundredth delivery anniversary celebrations of Lachit Borphukan and laid the inspiration of a 150-foot bronze statue of the legendary commander, to be constructed at his memorial in an space of over 16.5 acres at Hollongapar close to Teok.

“The statue is within the first part and work for the second part is happening. A gallery with the historical past of the Ahom dynasty’s 600 years rule shall be offered, whereas one other gallery may have up to date Assam historical past. An auditorium having a capability to accommodate 500 folks may even be constructed. The entire undertaking value shall be Rs 214 crore,” Sarma stated.

Lachit Borphukan was a legendary military commander of the Ahom kingdom (1228-1826). He’s identified for his management within the 1671 ‘Battle of Saraighat’ on Brahmaputra that thwarted a drawn-out try by the mighty Mughal forces, led by Raja Ramsingh-I, to take again Assam.

After the statue’s inauguration, Modi will go to Meleng in Jorhat district by highway to roll out numerous infrastructure improvement initiatives, funded by each state and central governments, and tackle the general public.

“He’ll hand over 5,55,555 Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) homes to the beneficiaries, marking a major milestone as the most important variety of homes inaugurated in a single day within the nation. He may even inaugurate the Tinsukia Medical School and Hospital and lay the inspiration for Sivasagar Medical School and Hospital,” Sarma stated.

Modi may even inaugurate a baby most cancers therapy undertaking value Rs 300 crore at Dr B Borooah Most cancers Institute (BBCI) in Guwahati beneath the PM-DevINE scheme, he added.

The chief minister stated different initiatives that the prime minister will inaugurate are capability expansions of refineries at Digboi to 1 million metric tonne every year (MMTPA) from 0.65 MMTPA (Rs 768 crore) and Guwahati to 1.2 MMTPA from 1 MMTPA (Rs 510 crore).

Modi may even begin the growth work for IOC’s Betkuchi terminal (Rs 277 crore), partial inauguration of Barauni-Numaligarh gasoline pipeline as much as Guwahati (Rs 3,992 crore), and dedicate OIL’s two pumping stations for supplying crude from Guwahati to Bongaigaon (Rs 572 crore) and from Duliajan to Digboi (Rs 51 crore), he added.

“In addition to, the PM will inaugurate two railway initiatives for doubling of tracks, value Rs 1,328 crore. The primary one is from Dhupdhara to Chhaygaon and the opposite is from New Bongaigaon to Sarbhog,” Sarma stated.

After the operate, he’ll depart for West Bengal on Saturday night, he added.

Requested if the two-day go to shall be a type of Modi’s starting of the election marketing campaign in Assam, Sarma stated, “The PM involves the Northeast continuously. This shall be his third go to to Assam this 12 months (2023-24). I do not suppose it has any relation to the elections. If Lachit Borphukan’s statue was prepared earlier, he would have come then.”

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