Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, February 20 inaugurated multiple educational projects worth ₹13,375 crore. This includes three new IIMs, permanent campuses for IITs, 20 new buildings for Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and 13 new buildings for Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs), across the country.
The projects include permanent campuses for IIT Bhilai, IIT Tirupati, IIT Jammu, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Indian Institute of Skills (IIS), a pioneer skill training institute on advanced technologies located at Kanpur, and campuses of Central Sanskrit University at Devprayag (Uttarakhand) and Agartala (Tripura).
Modi inaugurated three new IIMs in the country -- IIM Jammu, IIM Bodh Gaya and IIM Visakhapatnam -- besides 20 new buildings for Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and 13 for new Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs) buildings across the country.
The PM also inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Vijaypur (Samba), Jammu. The institute, whose foundation stone was laid by him in February 2019, is being established under the central government scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana'.
Established at a cost of over ₹1,660 crore and in an area spanning over 227 acres, the hospital is equipped with 720 beds, a medical college with 125 seats, a nursing college with 60 seats, an AYUSH block with 30 beds, residential accommodation for faculty and staff, hostel accommodation for UG and PG students and a shopping complex among other facilities.
Apart from this, PM Modi launched projects worth ₹30,500 crore in multiple sectors including education, railway, aviation and road. He distributed appointment letters to about 1500 newly recruited government employees of Jammu and Kashmir and interacted with beneficiaries of various schemes as part of the 'Viksit Bharat, Viksit Jammu' programme.
First Published: Feb 19, 2024 3:24 PM IST
