Patna/New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to play Santa Claus when he visits Bihar on November 13, 2024. He will travel to Darbhanga and at around 10:45 am, he will inaugurate, lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation multiple development projects worth around Rs 12,100 crore in Bihar.
Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Darbhanga worth over Rs 1260 crore. It will have a super-speciality hospital, AYUSH block, medical college, nursing college, night shelter and residential facilities among others. It will provide tertiary health care facilities to the people of Bihar and nearby regions. He will also dedicate to the nation 18 ‘Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras’ at various railway stations across India.
The Prime Minister will also flag off MEMU train services in the Jhanjharpur-Laukaha Bazar section, and will also lay the foundation stone of multiple initiatives in the petroleum and natural gas sector worth over Rs 4,020 crore. He will lay the foundation stone for the development of the City Gas Distribution (CGD) network in five major districts of Bihar at Darbhanga, Madhubani, Supaul, Sitamarhi and Sheohar by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, to bring Piped Natural Gas (PNG) to households and providing clean energy options to commercial and industrial sectors. He will also lay the foundation stone for a Bitumen manufacturing unit of Barauni Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Limited that will produce bitumen domestically helping reduce reliance on imported bitumen.
Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple National Highway projects worth around Rs 5,070 crore during his Bihar visit. He will inaugurate the four-lane Galgalia-Araria section of NH-327E, which will provide an alternate route from Araria on the East-West Corridor (NH-27) to the neighbouring state of West Bengal at Galgalia. He will also inaugurate two rail overbridges (RoB) on NH-322 and NH-31. Further, he will inaugurate a major bridge on NH-110 at Bandhuganj that will connect Jehanabad to Biharsharif. Besides, he will lay the foundation stone of eight National Highway projects which include the construction of the two-lane road with paved shoulders from Ramnagar to Rosera, Bihar-West Bengal border to Manihari section of NH-131A, Hajipur to Bachhwara via Mahnar and Mohiuddin Nagar, Sarwan-Chakai section, among others. He will also lay the foundation stone of Raniganj Bypass on NH-327E; Katoria, Lakhpura, Banka and Panjwara bypasses on NH-333A; and a four-lane link road from NH-82 to NH-33.
He will dedicate and lay the foundation stone of railway projects worth over Rs. 1740 crore. He will lay the foundation stone of the Sonenagar bypass railway line from Chiralapothu to Bagha Bishunpur in the Aurangabad district of Bihar worth over Rs. 220 crore. He will also dedicate to the nation, railway projects worth over Rs 1520 crore. These include the gauge conversion of the Jhanjharpur-Laukaha Bazar rail section, the Darbhanga bypass railway line which will ease the railway traffic congestion at Darbhanga Junction, and the doubling of railway line projects which will facilitate better regional connectivity, among others.
– global bihari bureau
