₹71k-cr projects in focus during PM's 5-state tour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three-day tour from Saturday, covering five states, Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, West Bengal, and Bihar, and inaugurating projects worth ₹71,000 crore in a major push for ease-of-living in India's eastern and northeastern regions.

- Sanjay Maurya

In focus will be the PM's visit to Manipur on Saturday, his first since violence broke out in the state in May 2023. He is set to inaugurate projects worth ₹8,500 crore in the state.

"I will be attending programmes in Churachandpur and Imphal tomorrow, 13th September. We are fully committed to furthering inclusive and all-round development of Manipur.

The foundation stone for road projects, national highway projects, women hostels and more would be laid. The projects being inaugurated include the civil secretariat at Mantripukhri, the IT SEZ Building and the new police headquarters at Mantripukhri, a unique all women's market in various districts," Modi posted on X.

The tour will begin from Mizoram, where at around 10am in Aizawl, Modi will launch projects worth more than ₹9,000 crore including the inauguration of the Bairabi-Sairang New Rail Line, built at a cost of over ₹8,070 crore, which connects Mizoram’s capital to the Indian Railways network for the first time, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement.

He will flag off three new trains in Mizoram — the Sairang-Delhi Rajdhani Express, Sairang-Guwahati Express, and Sairang-Kolkata Express. He will also inaugurate projects related to roads, energy, sports, and education, including the Aizawl Bypass Road, an LPG bottling plant at Mualkhang, a Khelo India Multipurpose Indoor Hall Tuikual, and new residential schools in Mamit and Tlangnuam, as well as address a public gathering in Aizawl.