Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is to unveil projects worth around Rs 15,000 crore in Odisha Monday, is slated to visit the state again twice next month, a senior party leader said Sunday.
Modi will visit Odisha to address two meetings January 5 and January 16, BJP state in-charge Arun Singh said.
During his brief Odisha visit Monday, he will dedicate the new campus of IIT-Bhubaneswar at Aragul built at a cost of Rs 1,660 crore and launch a slew of projects related to higher education, health, road and highways and culture via video conferencing from there.
The Prime Minister will address a public meeting near Khurda Monday.
Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who took stock of preparations for Modi’s one-day Odisha visit, said the Prime Minister will unveil several developmental projects worth Rs 15,000 crore in line with his vision of “PURBODAYA” – a prosperous east for building a new India. Thereafter, the PM will also address a gathering from the foothills of Barunei hills near Khurda – the land of ‘Paika Rebellion’, he said.
Asserting that a wave of change is now sweeping across Odisha ahead of 2019 elections, the BJP state in-charge said the Prime Minister is all set to visit the state twice in January next year.
Modi will visit Odisha January 5 to address a public meeting at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, while he is slated to attend another meeting in the state January 16, Singh said.
Stating that the popularity of the Prime Minister has been growing in Odisha, the senior BJP leader claimed, “Modiji occupies an important position in the hearts of the people of the state.”
Another senior BJP leader said top leaders including party president Amit Shah are set to make frequent visits to Odisha where Assembly election is scheduled to be held along with Lok Sabha polls next year.
Pradhan said these projects will bring unprecedented development to the state.
Modi will lay foundation stone for a permanent campus of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Berhampur, Paradip-Hyderabad product pipeline, six-laning of the Chandikhole-Bhadrak section of NH-16, construction of Bokaro-Angul section of Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra gas pipeline projects and four-laning of Cuttack-Angul section of NH-42.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate new facility of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospital in Bhubaneshwar which came up at a cost of Rs 73.5 crore, official sources said.
He will also inaugurate the archaeological museum at Lalitgiri, one of the earliest Buddhist settlements in Odisha situated 120 km north of Bhubaneshwar.
A thick security blanket has been laid for the PM’s visit, said Inspector General of Police (Central Range), Soumendra Priyadarshi.
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