Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Jammu on Tuesday, February 20, and launched multiple development projects, including for education, railway, aviation and road sectors, worth ₹30,500 crore. A multi-tier security setup was put in place and traffic advisories were issued for Modi's visit.
Modi addressed a public rally at Maulana Azad Stadium in the heart of winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir today.
He distributed appointment letters to about 1,500 newly recruited government employees of Jammu and Kashmir and interact with beneficiaries of various schemes as part of the 'Viksit Bharat, Viksit Jammu' programme.
Modi inaugurated the railways line between Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan (48 km) and the newly electrified Baramulla-Srinagar-Banihal-Sangaldan section (185.66 km). He flagged off the first electric train in the Valley and the train service between Sangaldan and Baramulla stations.
Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of several projects worth about ₹13,375 crore. 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).
He also 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.
Modi 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.
Among other projects, Modi laid the foundation stone for a new terminal building at the Jammu airport. Spread over 40,000 sqm, the new terminal building will be equipped with modern facilities catering to about 2,000 passengers during peak hours, will be environment friendly and will showcase the local.
During the programme, he laid the foundation stone of important road projects including two packages (44.22 km) of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway connecting Jammu to Katra and phase-two for four-laning of the Srinagar Ring road.
He laid the foundation stone for a project to develop CUF (Common User Facility) petroleum depot at Jammu as well.
Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of several development projects worth more than ₹3,150 crore for strengthening the civic infrastructure and provisioning of public facilities across Jammu and Kashmir, it said.
First Published: Feb 20, 2024 9:37 AM IST
