New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go on a two-day tour of West Bengal and Assam on Saturday. He will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate National Highway projects at Ranaghat in Nadia district. Guwahati’s popular Gopinath Bordoloi in Assam will inaugurate the new terminal building of the international airport. In Namrup, Dibrugarh, he will perform Bhoomi Pujan for the ammonia-urea project of Assam Valley Fertilizer and Chemical Company.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Prime Minister Modi will reach Bengal tomorrow morning and go to Guwahati in the afternoon. After this, the next morning he has a program to pay tribute to the martyrs at the Martyr Memorial area in Boragaon, Guwahati and will go to Dibrugarh during the day. The Prime Minister will also address three public meetings.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of two National Highway projects worth about Rs 3,200 crore in Nadia. This includes inauguration of 4-laning of 66.7 km long Barjaguli-Krishnanagar section of NH-34, foundation stone of 4-laning of 17.6 km long Barasat-Barjaguli section of NH-34 in North 24 Parganas district. These projects will act as an important connectivity between Kolkata and Siliguri.
The new terminal of the popular Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati will prove to be an important milestone in Assam’s connectivity, economic expansion and global engagement. The new integrated terminal building, spread over approximately 1.4 lakh square metres, is designed to handle 1.3 crore passengers per annum, with extensive upgrades made to the runway, airfield system, apron and taxiways.
An estimated investment of over Rs 1 crore has been made in the new brownfield ammonia-urea fertilizer project. The Rs 10,600 crore project will meet the fertilizer requirements of Assam and neighboring states, reduce import dependence, generate substantial employment and drive regional economic growth. It is the cornerstone of industrial revival and farmer welfare.
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