New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday ceremoniously launched and initiated the groundwork for quite a few improvement initiatives spanning varied sectors, with a mixed worth of roughly Rs 7,500 crore in Maharashtra. Addressing the public assembly in Ahmednagar, PM Modi commenced his speech in Marathi and paid respect to the holy shrine of Shirdi.
Adressing the general public PM Modi mentioned, “Today, with the divine blessings of Sai Baba, we have laid and inaugurated the foundation stone for development projects valued at Rs 7,500 crores. Additionally, the long-awaited Nilwande Dam, a five-decade aspiration for Maharashtra, has been successfully completed. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to perform the ‘Jal Poojan’ at this momentous occasion.”
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Meanwhile, earlier, PM Modi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar paid floral tributes to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, in Shirdi. PM Modi inaugurated the brand new Darshan Queue advanced at Shirdi. It is a state-of-the-art trendy mega constructing envisaged to offer snug ready areas for the devotees.
It is provided with a number of ready halls with a cumulative seating capability of greater than ten thousand devotees. It has the supply of air-conditioned public facilities like cloakrooms, bogs, reserving counters, prasad counters, info centre and so on. The basis stone of this new Darshan Queue Complex was laid by the Prime Minister in October 2018, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister additionally devoted to the nation the left financial institution (85km) canal community of the Nilwande Dam. It will profit 182 villages from 7 Tehsils (6 in Ahmednagar district and 1 from Nashik district) by facilitating pipe distribution networks of water. The concept of Nilwande Dam was first conceived in 1970. It is being developed at a value of about Rs 5177 crore, it said.
During the general public programme, the Prime Minister additionally launched the ‘Namo Shetkari Mahasanman Nidhi Yojana’. The Yojna will profit greater than 86 lakh beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana in Maharashtra, by offering a further quantity of Rs 6000 per yr to them.
The PM additionally inaugurated and devoted to the nation a number of improvement initiatives together with Ayush Hospital at Ahmednagar Civil Hospital; Electrification of Kurduwadi-Latur Road railway part (186 Km); third and 4th railway line connecting Jalgaon to Bhusaval (24.46 km); 4 laning of Sangli to Borgaon part of NH-166 (Package-I); Additional services at Manmad Terminal of Indian Oil company Limited. Moreover, the PM laid the inspiration stone of the Maternal and Child Health Wing at Ahmednagar Civil Hospital.
