{"id":504173,"date":"2024-03-09T17:53:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=504173"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:56:59","slug":"modi-bjp-congress-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/modi-bjp-congress-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi inaugurates multiple development projects in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated and laid the foundation for multiple development projects worth more than Rs 17,500 crore in Assam. Asserting that the Northeast\u2019s development is important, PM Modi accused the Congress of ignoring the Northeast States for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He unveiled the projects strengthening the health, oil and gas, railway and housing sectors at a function in Jorhat. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma were present at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates and lays the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 17,500 crores in Assam. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ofn0DLbFmB\">pic.twitter.com\/Ofn0DLbFmB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1766371232490901993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After unveiling projects worth Rs 17,500 crore in Assam, he said heritage and development was the mantra of the double-engine government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a public meeting at Meleng Meteli Pothar, he also alleged that the Congress government&#8217;s insensitive and unplanned conservation strategy led to poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Immensely grateful for the affection of people across Assam. Speaking at the launch of development works in Jorhat. Do watch! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MBl7NiRfb3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MBl7NiRfb3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1766371443904757811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To fulfil the objective of Viksit Bharat, he laid the foundation stone of projects under the Prime Minister&#8217;s Development Initiative for North Eastern Region (PM-DevINE) scheme. Medical College and Hospital at Sivasagar and a Hemato-Lymphoid Centre in Guwahati were among these projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Modi also laid the foundation stone for the capacity expansions of the Digboi Refinery from 0.65 to 1 mmtpa (Million Metric Tonnes per Annum) and Guwahati Refinery from 1.0 to 1.2 mmtpa, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Built at a cost of about&nbsp;Rs&nbsp;3,992 crore, PM Modi inaugurated a new medical college and hospital at Tinsukia and the 718-km-long Barauni- Guwahati Pipeline. He also inaugurated about 5.5 lakh homes under PM Awas Yojana-Gramin, which was constructed for about Rs&nbsp;8,450 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Railway projects worth more than Rs&nbsp;1,300 crore in the state, he inaugurated. The Dhupdhara-Chhaygaon section of the New Bongaigaon-Guwahati via Goalpara doubling project and the New Bongaigaon-Sorbhog section of the New Bongaigaon-Agthori doubling project were among these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After unveiling projects worth Rs 17, 500 crore in Assam, he said heritage and development was the mantra of the double-engine government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":504329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[674,111,165],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11142640\/hbs-modi-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504173"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504173"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=504173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->