Prime Minister Modi will preside over a ceremony marking the Panchayati Raj (FILE)
Srinagar:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today hold his first public event in Jammu and Kashmir, more than two years after the center was stripped of its special status for the state and split it into two Union Territories.
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Tight security is in place for Prime Minister Modi’s visit. A big welcome is expected in Palli, with tens of thousands of people waiting to greet him at an event organized by the BJP in the Jammu region.
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Prime Minister Modi will preside over a ceremony to mark the Panchayati Raj – a day celebrating grassroots democracy
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Today’s event will see Prime Minister Modi lead the region “entering a new era of development,” Lieutenant Colonel Governor Manoj Sinha told reporters.
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Today’s event will be Prime Minister Modi’s first official appearance in Jammu and Kashmir since August 2019, although Prime Minister Modi has made unofficial visits to celebrate the festivities with the army. close along the Line of Control.
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The Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the groundwork for development projects worth more than Rs 20,000 crore, including the opening of the Banihal-Qazigund road tunnel for all-weather connectivity between the two regions of the Union Territory .
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He will celebrate National Panchayati Raj Day and address states across the country, the Prime Minister’s Office, or PMO, said in a statement.
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PMO said that seeking to develop and regenerate 75 bodies of water in every district in the country, Prime Minister Modi will launch an initiative called ‘Amrit Sarovar’.
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The Banihal-Qazigund Road Tunnel, to be built at a cost of more than Rs 3,100 crore, is 8.45 km long and it will reduce the road distance between Banihal and Qazigund by 16 km, while also cutting travel time by one and a half miles. half an hour.
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It is a two-pipe tunnel, one in each direction, and the tubes are connected by a diagonal passage every 500 meters for maintenance and emergency evacuation.
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Among other projects, PM Modi will lay the groundwork for the Ratle and Kwar hydroelectric projects, an 850 megawatts that will be built on the Chenab River in Kishtwar at a cost of around Rs 5,300 crore. He will also lay the groundwork for the 540 megawatt Kwar hydroelectric project, to be built on the same river at a cost of more than Rs 4,500 crore. Interestingly, this is the second time the Ratle project’s bedrock has been laid. In 2013, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the project.
