Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated numeorus development projects worth over Rs 32,000 crore in Jammu and Kashmir, with primary focus aimed at the sectors of education, railway, aviation and road sectors.
Besides this, from Jammu, the real executive laid founding stones for other projects worthy of Rs 13, 500 crore across India.
List of the projects inagurated by PM:
- Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and central universities.
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Vijaypur (Samba), Jammu. It is established under the central government's 'Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana', whose foundation stone was laid in 2019.
- Railway line between Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan (48 km) and the newly electrified Baramulla-Srinagar-Banihal-Sangaldan section (185.66 km).
- First electric train in the Valley and the train service between Sangaldan and Baramulla stations.
- India's longest transportation tunnel T-50 (12.77 km) lies in the portion between Khari and Sumber.
- Inaugurated three new IIMs in the country - IIM Jammu, IIM Bodh Gaya and IIM Visakhapatnam - besides 20 new buildings for Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and 13 for new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) buildings across the country.
- The prime minister also distributed appointment letters to about 1,500 newly recruited government employees of Jammu and Kashmir and also interacted with the beneficiaries of various schemes as part of the 'Viksit Bharat, Viksit Jammu' programme.
The commissioning of the Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan section is significant as it features the usage of ballast less track (BLT) all along the route providing a better ride experience to passengers.
The inaugurated railway projects are anticipated to improve connectivity, assuring environmental sustainability and boost the overall economic development of the region.
Projects whose foundation stones were laid today:
- Permanent campuses for - IIT Bhilai, IIT Tirupati, IIT Jammu, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Indian Institute of Skills (IIS), a pioneer skills training institute on advanced technologies located at Kanpur, and campuses of Central Sanskrit University at Devprayag (Uttarakhand) and Agartala (Tripura).
- New terminal building at the Jammu airport. Spread over 40,000 sqm, the new terminal building will be equipped with modern facilities catering to about 2,000 passengers during peak hours, and will be environment friendly.
- Road projects including two stretches (44.22 km) of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway connecting Jammu to Katra and phase-two for the four-laning of the Srinagar Ring road.
- Project to develop the CUF (Common User Facility) petroleum depot at Jammu as well.
Features of AIIMS inaugurated by PM in J&K:
Set up at a cost of over Rs 1,660 crore and in an area spanning over 227 acres, the hospital is equipped with 720 beds, a medical college with 125 seats, a nursing college with 60 seats, an AYUSH block with 30 beds, residential accommodation for faculty and staff, hostel accommodation for UG and PG students and a shopping complex among other facilities.
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