Bikaner: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate and lay the foundation stone of development projects worth over 24,300 crore rupees in Bikaner this evening. The Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation a six-lane greenfield expressway section of the Amritsar – Jamnagar Economic Corridor. Spanning over 500 km in Rajasthan, this section which runs from village Jakhdawali in Hanumangarh district to village Khetlawas in Jalore district, is built at a cost of around 11,125 crore rupees.
This expressway will significantly reduce travel time and improve connectivity between major cities, and industrial corridors. Prime Minister will dedicate to the Nation the phase-I of the Inter-State Transmission Line for Green Energy Corridor worth around 10,950 crore rupees. The Green Energy Corridor will integrate about 6 GW of renewable power and help in grid balancing of Renewable Power with Thermal Generation in Western Region and Hydro Generation in the Northern Region, thereby strengthening transmission capacity between Northern Region and Western Region. The Prime Minister will also dedicate Bikaner to the Bhiwadi Transmission Line. To be developed by Power Grid at a cost of around 1,340 crore rupees, the Bikaner to Bhiwadi Transmission Line will help in the evacuation of 8.1 GW of Solar Power in Rajasthan.
The Prime Minister will dedicate a new 30-bedded Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital in Bikaner. The hospital will have a capacity upgradeable to 100 beds.
Further, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of the Bikaner Railway station to be developed at a cost of around 450 crore rupees. The Foundation Stone for the Doubling of the 43 km long Churu – Ratangarh section will also be laid by the Prime Minister. Our correspondent reports that the Prime Minister is also scheduled to address a public meeting.
This is the seventh visit of the Prime Minister to Rajasthan in the last nine months. The public meeting of the Prime Minister is very important as assembly elections are to be held in the State late in the year. Senior BJP leaders have made special preparations in the last two weeks for this public meeting. Party workers from 30 Assembly seats of six districts and four Lok Sabha seats have been invited to this public meeting. People of Bikaner are also enthusiastic about the Prime Minister’s visit. Hoardings have been put up at various places to welcome the Prime Minister. Elaborate security arrangements have been made in view of the Prime Minister’s visit.
