PTI
PATNA: (Aug 22) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bihar on Friday, where he will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate multiple development projects worth over Rs 13,000 crore, officials said.
During his nearly four-hour tour of Bihar, the PM will undertake whistle-stop visits to Gayaji, Patna and Begusarai districts.
The trip will begin at Gayaji, where he will inaugurate projects including a 660 MW power project situated in Buxar built at a cost of Rs 6,880 crore, and also address a public rally, they said.
He will also inaugurate the 1.86-km-long six-lane Aunta-Simaria Bridge project on Ganga River, constructed at a cost of over Rs 1,870 crore. It will provide direct connectivity between Mokama in Patna and Begusarai.
The PM will also inaugurate the four-lane Bakhtiyarpur-Mokama section of NH-31, built at around Rs 1,900 crore, which will ease congestion, reduce travel time, and enhance passenger and freight, the officials said.
He will also inaugurate the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Muzaffarpur.
The centre includes advanced Oncology OPD, IPD wards, operation theatres, modern laboratory, blood bank, and a 24-bed ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and HDU (High Dependency Unit).
This facility will provide advanced and affordable cancer care to patients in Bihar and neighbouring states, reducing the need to travel to distant metros for treatment, the officials said.
The PM will also lay the foundation stone for a series of urban infrastructure projects worth around Rs 1,260 crore. These include the STP and sewerage network at Daudnagar in Aurangabad, and Jehanabad, STP and interception and diversion work at Barahiya in Lakhisarai, and Jamui, they said.
Under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, he will lay the foundation stone of water supply projects at Aurangabad, Bodh Gaya and Jehanabad.
The PM will also flag off two trains — Amrit Bharat Express between Gaya and Delhi and Buddhist Circuit Train between Vaishali and Koderma.
‘Grih Pravesh’ (housewarming) ceremony of 12,000 rural beneficiaries under PMAY-Gramin and 4,260 beneficiaries under PMAY-Urban will also take place with the symbolic handing over of keys to a few beneficiaries by the PM, the officials said.
Commenting on PM’s visit to Bihar on Friday, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, in a post on X, wrote, “PM Modi ji is coming to Gayaji today to perform the ‘pind daan’ (last rites) of the political journey of Nitish Kumar and his party.”
Leader of the Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, in a post on X, wrote, “Today, a shop of lies and rhetoric will be set up in Gayaji! The PM must explain what he has done for Bihar in the last 11 years and what the NDA government did for the state in the last 20 years.”
