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Raipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur on Friday where he is scheduled to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for ten projects worth about Rs 7,600 crore, officials said. This is Modi’s first visit to the Congress-ruled state after being elected prime minister for a second term in 2019, where assembly elections are due later this year. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Chhattisgarh believe that Modi’s visit will energize the party workers preparing for the elections in the state. After holding power in Chhattisgarh for 15 years, the party lost the assembly elections in 2018. An official said on Thursday that the Prime Minister’s program would be held at the Science College ground here at 10.45 am.
The Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of four-laning of 33-km Raipur-Kodebod section of National Highway 30, 53-km four-laning of Bilaspur-Pathrapali section of NH-130. He said, construction of three sections (Jhanki-Sargi (43 km), Sargi-Basanwahi (57 km) and Basanwahi-Marangpuri (25 km)) as a part of the six-lane Raipur-Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor NH-130 CD .
The Prime Minister will also dedicate to the nation the doubling of the 103-km Raipur-Khariar road rail line built at a cost of Rs 750 crore, the 17-km new railway line connecting Keoti-Antagarh and a bottling plant. The Indian Oil Corporation plant at Korba with a capacity of 60,000 metric tonnes per annum has been built at a cost of over Rs 130 crore, the official said.
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Apart from this, the Prime Minister will start the distribution of 75 lakh cards to the beneficiaries under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and flag off a new train from Antagarh (Kanker district) to Raipur, he said. After this, PM will address a public meeting at the same place.
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A massive security cordon has been put in place at the venue, police said. A police official said that a multi-layered security arrangement has been made in this area located in the heart of the city, which includes personnel of the Special Protection Group (SPG) besides state police personnel.
