PM Modi to lay foundation stone, dedicate to nation multiple scientific projects worth over Rs 5,800 cr in New Delhi today

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation multiple scientific projects worth over five thousand eight hundred crore rupees on the occasion of National Technology Day in New Delhi today. 

Mr. Modi will inaugurate a programme to mark the day. This year's celebrations of National Technology Day has a special focus on Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).

The AIM Pavilion will showcase multiple innovative projects and provide an opportunity for the visitors to witness live tinkering sessions, engage in tinkering activities and witness outstanding innovations and products by Startups.

During the programme, the Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Expo showcasing scientific and technological advancements made in India in the recent past. 

Akashvani correspondent reports, Prime Minister Modi will also release a commemorative stamp and coin on the occasion. The projects whose foundation stone will be laid by the Prime Minister



include Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory - India (LIGO-India), Hingoli, Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Jatni in Odisha and Platinum Jubilee Block of Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

The LIGO-India will be one of the handful Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave observatories in the world.  It will work in synchronisation with two such observatories operating in the United States.

During the function, the projects related to  Fission Molybdenum-99 Production Facility in Mumbai, Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant and Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Visakhapatnam, National Hadron Beam Therapy Facility and Women and Children Cancer Hospital Building in Navi Mumbai will be dedicated to the nation. 

The projects related to several Cancer Hospitals and facilities will decentralise and enhance provisioning of world-class cancer care in different regions of the country.