New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh on July 7 and Telangana and Rajasthan the next day and inaugurate or lay foundation stones for projects worth about Rs 50,000 crore. The Prime Minister’s Office gave this information on Wednesday. A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of various development projects and dedicate them to the nation at a public event in Raipur on July 7 at around 10:45 am.
PM Modi will lay the foundation stone for five National Highway projects worth about Rs 6,400 crore, including four-laning of the 33-km Raipur-Kodebod section of the Jabalpur-Jagdalpur National Highway, four-laning of the 53-km Bilaspur-Pathrapali section of NH-130 This will include four-laning of NCR and three National Highway projects for the Chhattisgarh section and the six-lane greenfield Raipur-Visakhapatnam corridor.
He will dedicate to the nation the doubling of 103 km long Raipur-Khariar road rail line, 17 km new railway line connecting Keoti-Antagarh and a project completed at a cost of Rs 750 crore. Indian Oil Corporation’s bottling plant with a capacity of 60,000 metric tonnes per annum at Korba has been built at a cost of over Rs 130 crore. It further said that Modi will reach Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh at around 2:30 pm on July 7 and Geeta Will participate in the closing ceremony of the Centenary Celebrations of the Press. He will also flag off Vande Bharat trains from Gorakhpur.
In Gorakhpur, Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Gorakhpur Railway Station Redevelopment Project. The station will be redeveloped at a cost of about Rs 498 crore to provide world-class passenger amenities, the statement said. At around 5 pm, the Prime Minister will reach Varanasi, where he will attend a public program and lay the foundation stone of several development projects, Will inaugurate and dedicate to the nation.
Modi will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for development projects worth over Rs 12,100 crore, the PMO said. It added that he will dedicate the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Junction-Sone Nagar railway line of the Dedicated Freight Corridor built at a cost of over Rs 6,760 crore Modi will also dedicate to the nation three railway lines whose electrification or doubling has been completed at a cost of over Rs 990 crore and the four-lane widening of the Varanasi-Jaunpur section of NH-56 has been completed at a cost of over Rs. . In this, a provision of Rs 2,750 crore has been made to ease the travel between Varanasi and Lucknow.
Projects he will inaugurate in Varanasi include construction and renovation of 18 PWD roads, International Girls Hostel building constructed on BHU campus, Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET)- Vocational Training Center at Karsara village, residential building at Sindhaura police station and facilities, PAC Bhullanpur, Fire Station at Pindra and Government Residential School and Economic Offenses Research Organization building at Tarsada.
On July 8, at around 10:45 am, the Prime Minister will reach Warangal in Telangana and attend a public event where he will lay the foundation stone for various projects. He will lay the foundation stone for several important infrastructure development projects in Telangana worth about Rs 6,100 crore. Of these, Rs 5,550 crore National Highway projects worth over Rs. 50,000 and upgradation of 68-km-long Karimnagar-Warangal section of NH-563 from existing two-lane to four-lane. The prime minister will also lay the foundation stone of a railway manufacturing unit at Kazipet. According to the statement, Modi will reach Rajasthan’s Bikaner at around 4:15 pm the same day and lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation several development projects worth over Rs 24,300 crore.
