PM Modi to lay foundation stones and dedicate multiple development projects in MP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Viksit Bharat Viksit Madhya Pradesh programme through video conferencing today. During the programme, Mr. Modi will lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation multiple development projects worth over 17 thousand 500 crore rupees across Madhya Pradesh. 

The projects will cater to a number of important sectors including irrigation, power, road, rail, water supply, coal, and industry, among others. He will also launch the Cyber Tehsil project in Madhya Pradesh.

Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of irrigation projects worth more than five thousand 500 crore rupees in Madhya Pradesh. These projects include the Upper Narmada Project, the Raghavpur Multipurpose



Project, and the Basaniya Multipurpose Project. These projects will irrigate over 75 thousand hectares of agricultural land in the Dindori, Anuppur, and Mandla districts and augment the power supply and drinking water in the region.

Mr Modi will also dedicate to the nation three railway projects constructed at a cost of more than two thousand 200 crore rupees. The projects include a third line in Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi - Jakhlaun and Dhaura - Agasod route, the Gauge conversion project in the New Sumaoli-Jora Alapur railway line, and the project for the Powarkheda-Jujharpur rail line flyover. These projects will improve rail connectivity and contribute to the socio-economic development of the region.