Assam: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Assam to dedicate Rs 14,300 crore to development projects on the first day of the state’s spring festival ‘Rongali Bihu’ on Friday.

PM’s itinerary for his Assam visit

Taking notes from PM’s itinerary, he is scheduled to arrive at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 11:30 am and attend the first programme of the day at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati at Changsari in Kamrup (Rural) district.

He will dedicate the Rs 1,123 crore medical facilities, the first AIIMS in the North East, to the nation and will also virtually inaugurate three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar.

The 500-bed tertiary care teaching hospitals with 24 undergraduate departments in the three medical colleges will start with 100 annual MBBS student intake, taking the total MBBS student intake to 1500 in Assam.

Moreover, PM Modi will also launch the distribution of 1.1 crore Ayushman cards to enable beneficiaries to avail of cashless healthcare medical treatment benefits up to Rs 5 lakh.

AAHI

During his Assam visit, the prime minister will also lay the foundation worth Rs 546 crore, including Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute (AAHII), a joint initiative of the state government and IIT Guwahati.

AAHII aims to promote inventions and innovations in medicine and healthcare, nurturing multidisciplinary research and development in frontier areas of medicine.

After the completion of these programmes, PM Modi will leave for Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra where he will attend the closing ceremony of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the Gauhati High Court.

Further, he will attend the day’s final programme. at the Sarusajai Sports Complex where he will launch Rs 7,280 crore worth of five projects of new double lines, new lines and electrified tracks of  North East Frontier Railway, creating 700 km of railway infrastructure to improve connectivity in the North East.

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PM to launch several projects virtually

Also, the prime minister will virtually launch the Rs 1,603 crore methanol plant of Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited at Namrup, lay the foundation for the 12.21 km long Palashbari-Sualkuchi Bridge Project across river Brahmaputra to be built for Rs 3,200 crore and the foundation of the beautification of Asia’s oldest amphitheatre of the Ahom era Rang Ghar Complex at a total cost of Rs 124 crore.

The day’s last programme will be the performance of Bihu dancers and drummers who created a Guinness World record on Thursday in the category of the largest recital of Bihu dance and playing of the Bihu ‘dhol’ (drum) at a single venue.

The prime minister will leave for New Delhi in the evening.