Will give job letters to youth, address rally
5 new Ind Estates for UT, Valley to get Ist electric train
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Feb 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay foundation stone of multiple development projects worth over Rs 32,000 crore from MA Stadium during his two and half hours long visit here tomorrow. He will also sound bugle for the BJP’s Lok Sabha election campaign in Jammu and Kashmir which accounted for five seats and the BJP is aiming to get three of them this time as against two in 2014 and 2019, by addressing a rally at the Stadium.
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Modi is expected to reach here around 11.30 AM and is likely to return to New Delhi around 2 PM. Inauguration and foundation laying ceremony of projects, distribution of appointment letters, interaction with ‘Viksit Bharat Viksit Jammu’ programme beneficiaries and address to a massive rally by Modi are scheduled at MA Stadium.
“Inauguration of projects and laying of foundation besides the interaction will take place through video conferencing,” officials told the Excelsior.
Modi will dedicate to the nation various rail projects in J&K including new rail line between Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan (48 kilometers) and newly electrified Baramulla-Srinagar-Banihal-Sangaldan section (185.66 kilometers). He will flag off first electric train in the Valley and also train service between Sangaldan Station and Baramulla Station.
“Commissioning of the Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan section is significant as it features the usage of Ballast Less Track (BLT) along the route providing a better riding experience to the passengers. Also, India’s longest transportation tunnel T-50 (12.77 kilometers) lies in this portion between Khari-Sumber. The rail projects will improve connectivity, ensure environmental sustainability and boost overall economic development of the region,” an official statement released by the PIB ahead of the PM’s visit said.
Modi will distribute appointment orders to 1500 new Government recruits in the UT and will also interact with beneficiaries of various Government schemes as part of the ‘Viksit Bharat Viksit Jammu’ programme.
After launching multiple projects, the Prime Minister will address a mammoth rally at the MA Stadium which will signal start of the BJP’s campaign for Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April-May. The BJP had won Jammu and Udhampur Parliamentary seats for two consecutive times in 2014 and 2019 and this time, it is eyeing third seat-Anantnag-Poonch-Rajouri after grant of ST status to Paharis.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Vijaypur in Samba district. The Institute whose foundation stone was also laid by the Prime Minister in February 2019, is being established under the Central sector scheme Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone for a new terminal building at Jammu Airport. To be spread over 40,000 sqm area, the new terminal building will be equipped with modern facilities catering to about 2000 passengers during peak hours.
It added that the Prime Minister will inaugurate, dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth over Rs 32,000 crore. The projects relate to several sectors including health, education, rail, road, aviation, petroleum, civic infrastructure, among others.
The projects which will be dedicated to the nation include permanent campus of IIT Bhilai, IIT Tirupati, IIT Jammu, IIT-DM Kurnool; Indian Institute of Skills (IIS) – a pioneer skill training institute on advanced technologies – located at Kanpur; and two campuses of Central Sanskrit University – at Devprayag (Uttarakhand) and at Agartala (Tripura).
He will also inaugurate three new campuses of IIMs in the country viz IIM Jammu, IIM Bodh Gaya and IIM Visakhapatnam. He will also inaugurate 20 new buildings for Kendriya Vidyalaya (KVs) and 13 new Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs) buildings across the country. He will also lay the foundation stone of five Kendriya Vidyalaya campuses, one Navodaya Vidyalaya campus and five Multipurpose Hall for Navodaya Vidyalayas across the country. These newly constructed KVs and NVs buildings will play an important role in meeting the educational needs of students across the country.
During the programme, the Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of important road projects including two packages (44.22 kilometers) of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway connecting Jammu to Katra; Phase two for four-laning of Srinagar Ring Road; five packages for upgrading the 161 km long Srinagar-Baramulla-Uri stretch of NH-01; and the construction of Kulgam Bypass & Pulwama bypass on NH-444.
“The two packages of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, once completed will facilitate the visit of pilgrims to the holy shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi, and will also boost economic development in the region. The Phase two for four-laning of Srinagar Ring Road involves upgrading the existing Sumbal-Wayul NH-1,” the official statement said.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone for a project to develop CUF (Common User Facility) Petroleum depot at Jammu. The state of art fully automated depot which will be developed at a cost of about Rs 677 crore, will have storage capacity of about 100000 KL for storing Motor Spirit (MS), High Speed Diesel (HSD), Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO), Aviation Turbine fuel (ATF), Ethanol, Bio diesel and winter grade HSD.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of several development projects worth more than Rs 3150 crore for strengthening the civic infrastructure and provisioning of public facilities across Jammu and Kashmir. The projects include, Road projects & Bridges; Grid Stations, receiving stations transmission line ; Common Effluent Treatment Plants and Sewage Treatment Plants; Several Degree College buildings; Intelligent Traffic Management system in Srinagar city; Modern Narwal Fruit Mandi; Drug Testing Laboratory at Kathua; and Transit accommodation – 224 flats at Ganderbal and Kupwara.
The projects whose foundation stone will be laid include development of five new Industrial Estates across Jammu and Kashmir; Data Centre/ Disaster Recovery Centre for Integrated Command and Control Centre of Jammu Smart City; Up-gradation of Transport Nagar at Parimpora Srinagar; Up-gradation of 62 road projects and 42 bridges and project for development of transit accommodation – 2816 flats at nine locations in Anantnag, Kulgam, Kupwara, Shopian & Pulwama districts, among others.
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