IIT Campus in Kota to E-Way in Gwalior: PM to Launch Mega Projects in Poll-Bound Rajasthan, MP Today – News18

Ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to amp up the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll pitch in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh on Monday. The Prime Minister is set to visit Chittorgarh in Rajasthan and Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh today, where he will launch multiple development projects.

As per the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), he will launch and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth about Rs 7,000 crore in Rajasthan and around Rs 19,260 crore in Madhya Pradesh. The Prime Minister has arrived in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, from where he will travel to Chittorgarh.

PM Modi’s Rajasthan Visit

While in Chittorgarh, PM Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Mehsana-Bathinda-Gurdaspur gas pipeline, built at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore in yet another step to promote a gas-based economy.

He will also inaugurate Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (HPCL) LPG plant in Abu Road. This plant will bottle and distribute 86 lakh cylinders per annum, resulting in a net reduction in running trucks carrying the cylinders by around 0.75 million kilometers annually, and will help to cut down about 0.5 million tons of CO2 emission per annum, according to PMO.

Among the other projects, PM Modi is set to throw open a four-lane road on NH-12 (new NH-52) on the Darah-Jhalawar-Teendhar section, which has been constructed at a cost of more than Rs 1,480 crore. The road has been needed to ease the transportation of the produce of mines from the Kota and Jhalawar districts.

Foundation stones for constructing and widening the railway overbridge from two lanes to four in Sawai Madhopur will also be laid. Further, PM Modi will also inaugurate several railway projects, tourism facilities, and a permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota.

PM Modi’s Madhya Pradesh Visit

In MP, PM Modi will visit Gwalior, the stronghold of BJP leaders and Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar. BJP’s performance was not very satisfactory in the Gwalior-Chambal region in the 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh.

While in Gwalior, PM Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Delhi-Vadodara Expressway, which has been developed at a cost of about Rs 11,895 crore. He will also lay the foundation stone for five different road projects worth over Rs 1,880 crore.

He is also set to initiate the ‘grih pravesh’ ceremony of over 2.2 lakh homes built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin. PM Modi will also inaugurate the houses constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban at a cost of about Rs 140 crore.

As per the PMO, Modi will lay the foundation stone of Jal Jeevan Mission projects worth over Rs 1,530 crore in Gwalior and Sheopur districts. These projects will together benefit more than 720 villages in the region.

He will also lay the foundation stone of nine health centres under the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission and inaugurate and launch several other projects.

Assembly Elections In MP and Rajasthan

The Prime Minister’s official programmes come ahead of the possible announcement of assembly elections soon in five states. Assembly polls in both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are expected to be held in November-December.