PM to visit Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh today. The Prime Minister will first travel to Rajasthan where he will lay the foundation stone and dedicate multiple development projects in various sectors like road, rail, aviation, health and higher education worth 5000 crore rupees in Jodhpur. He will also address a public meeting.

Mr Modi will lay the foundation stone of important projects for strengthening the health infrastructure in Rajasthan. The projects include 350 bedded ‘Trauma Centre and Critical Care Hospital Block at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Jodhpur’, and seven Critical Care Blocks under Pradhan Mantri - Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) to be developed across the state.

The Prime Minister will also dedicate to the Nation, IIT Jodhpur campus. The state-of- the-art campus has been built at a cost of more than 1135 crore rupees. For upgrading the infrastructure at Central University of Rajasthan, the Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation ‘central instrumentation laboratory, staff quarters and ‘yoga and sports sciences building’.

In the afternoon, Mr Modi will reach Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, where he will inaugurate, lay the foundation stone and dedicate to nation development projects worth more than 12,600 crore rupees, in sectors like in road, rail, gas pipeline, housing and clean



drinking water.

Prime Minister’s vision to provide housing for all will be strengthened as the Light House Project at Indore, Madhya Pradesh will be inaugurated. Built at a cost of about 128 crore rupees under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban, the project will benefit more than one thousand beneficiary families. It employs innovative technology Prefabricated Sandwich Panel System with Pre-engineered Steel Structural System to build quality homes with all basic facilities but in considerably reduced construction time.

In a step towards realising Prime Minister’s vision of providing safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections, the foundation stone of multiple Jal Jeevan Mission projects in Mandla, Jabalpur and Dindori districts worth over 2350 crore rupees will be laid. 

Prime Minister will dedicate the Jal Jeevan Mission project in Seoni district worth over 100 crore rupees to the nation. These projects in four districts of the state will benefit about 1575 villages of Madhya Pradesh.

The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone and  dedicate to nation worth multiple projects more than 4800 crore rupees for improving the road infrastructure in Madhya Pradesh. He will dedicate rail projects worth more than 1850 crore rupees to the nation.