Under its initiative Vikshit Bharat Vikshit Northeast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled multiple development projects worth Rs 17,500 crore in Assam on Saturday.
Addressing the public in Jorhat, PM Modi accentuated the initiatives bolstering the housing, oil and gas, health and railway sectors.
Under the Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North Eastern Region (PM-DevINE) programme, he laid the stones for numerous government projects, including Hemato-Lymphoid Center in Guwahati, a new Medical College and Hospital in Sivasagar and Tinsukia.
He fulfilled long pending demand by laying stones for capacity expansion works for Digboi and Guwahati refineries. At a cost of around Rs 3,992 crore, PM Modi inaugurated the 718-km Barauni-Guwahati Pipeline .
The Barauni-Guwahati Natural Gas Pipeline or BGPL, a milestone project linking the Northeast to the National Gas Grid, will prove to be a major asset for the Northeast development. It will provide a reliable source of clean energy, economic growth, and the overall well-being of the people in the region.
This Rs 3,992 crore project, scheduled to be finished by 2021, was delayed owing to technical reasons. The project is now ready on the part of GAIL, having constructed the pipeline up to Guwahati.
The 718-km-long pipeline will benefit six districts of Bihar, five districts of West Bengal, and nine districts of Assam – Kokrajhar, Chirang, Barpeta, Baksa, Nalbari, Darrang, Bongaigaon, Kamrup, and Kamrup (Metro) – before reaching Guwahati. This environment-friendly and cost-effective infrastructure to supply natural gas to domestic households, industries, commercial units, and the automobile sector in the region will pave ways for more investment and employment generation.
Apart from these, PM Modi inaugurated about 5.5 lakh homes under PM Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), constructed at a cost of about Rs 8,450 crore.
He unveiled railway projects worth more than Rs 1,300 crore in the State including Dhupdhara-Chhaygaon section (part of New Bongaigaon – Guwahati Via Goalpara Doubling Project) and New Bongaigaon – Sorbhog Section (part of New Bongaigaon – Agthori Doubling Project).
