Narendra Modi in Gujarat LIVE Updates: PM inaugurates Phase-1 of Ahmedabad Metro, lays foundation stone for second phase

PM Narendra Modi in Gujarat Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated Phase-1 of Ahmedabad Metro. He also laid the foundation stone for Vishwa Umiya Dham Temple Complex at Jaspur.

PM Narendra Modi in Gujarat Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated Phase-1 of Ahmedabad Metro. He also laid the foundation stone for Vishwa Umiya Dham Temple Complex at Jaspur. PM Modi said that the Congress governments of past fooled the farmers and cornered their votes by announcing loan waivers from time to time. PM Modi, who was at Jamnagar during his two-day Gujarat visit, said, “Every 10 year, it would start crying about farmers and give dose of farm loan waivers. The debt was Rs 6 lakh crore. They waived Rs 52,000 crore and cornered all votes.”

PM Modi also dedicated the 750-bed annexe of Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Jamnagar to the nation and inaugurate a newly built hostel of the hospital. He also inaugurated the second phases of link-I and link- III networks of Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation Yojana (SAUNI), an ambitious project by the state government to fill the reservoirs of 115 dams in the water-starved Saurashtra region with water that overflows from the Narmada dam.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday inaugurate the second phases of link-I and link- III networks of Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation Yojana (SAUNI), the ambitious project of the state government to fill up 115 dams of water-starved Saurashtra region with the overflowing water of Narmada dam.

The Prime Minister will fly to Jamnagar and dedicate to public the second phases of the link-I and link-III networks of SAUNI at a ceremony to be organised at the Exhibition Ground in Jamnagar city. The PM will inaugurate the second phase of link-I by releasing water into Ranjitsagar dam, a reservoir around seven kilometres from Jamnagar city. As part of the Rs 500-crore second phase, pumping station has been set up at Und-I dam and 3,000 millimetre (mm) diametre pipeline is being laid.

Later in the day, PM Modi will inaugurate Phase-1 of Ahmedabad Metro at the Vastral Gam Metro Station in Ahmedabad, and unveil a Common Mobility Card for travellers. He will also lay the foundation stone for the second phase of the metro.

PM Modi will dedicate to the nation the Dahod Railway Workshop, which includes the modernisation and augmentation of Wagon POH capacity to 150 wagons per month. The PM will lay the foundation stone of Anand-Godhra Railway Line Doubling Project and inaugurate the Patan- Bindi railway line. PM Modi will inaugurate the 1200 bed New Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad and distribute Golden Cards to select beneficiaries of PM-JAY Ayushman Bharat scheme.

PM Modi will also visit Jaspur to lay the foundation stone of Vishva Umiyadham Complex.

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