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A gift to Himachal Nation

HIMACHAL PRADESH WILL BECOME
SELF-RELIANT

After the fully operationalized AIIMS Bilaspur, half of
Himachal will directly benefit from this AIIMS. Bilaspur
and places such as Hamirpur, and Mandi districts will
directly benefit from it. Along with this, better health
facilities will also be available to Kullu and Lahaul Spiti
because of Bilaspur AIIMS. About 30 lakh people in
these five districts will get the benefit of AIIMS Bilaspur
directly. Along with this, other districts of Himachal
Pradesh will also benefit from this.

HIMACHAL PRADESH RECEIVED
SEVERAL PROJECTS IN LAST 8 YEARS…
Atal Tunnel was completed in Himachal during the
tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Talking
about big projects, many obstacles in the way of the
Renuka Dam project have been removed. Apart from
this, the work on projects like Green Field International
Airport worth one thousand crore rupees in Mandi,
Bulk Drug Pharma Park in Una, and Kiratpur-Manali
Four-lane are gaining momentum. In the year 2019,
the Center sanctioned a flood project of Rs 4893 crore
PM MODI REACHED THE CHARIOT OF LORD to Himachal. Apart from this, four roads of Himachal
RAGHUNATH BREAKING PROTOCOL have been included in Bharat Mala Project. In 2017 the
central government announced Rs 100 crore for the
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended Himalayan Circuit of the Swadesh Darshan scheme in
the International Kullu Dussehra festival in Himachal. On the completion of four years of provincial
Himachal government, PM Narendra Modi on a visit to
Himachal Pradesh on the auspicious occasion Mandi gifted projects worth Rs 11581 crore to the state.
of Vijayadashami on October 05. This time on October 5, while addressing a gathering
On reaching Kullu, Chief Minister Jai Ram in Bandla on his Himachal tour, Prime Minister Modi
Thakur welcomed Prime Minister Modi. During said, "Till 2014 there were only 3 medical colleges in
his visit, Prime Minister Modi broke the protocol Himachal, out of which 2 were government. In the last
and reached Raghunath Ji's chariot and took 8 years, 5 new government medical colleges have been
built in Himachal. Till 2014, only 500 students could
blessings. Prime Minister Modi is the first study in the under and post-graduate courses, today
Prime Minister of the country to attend the Kullu this number has more than doubled, i.e., more than
Dussehra festival. 1200.

Modi inaugurated Rs 140 crore Government Hydro been signed for setting up an industry in this medical
Engineering College in Bandla. This college will help device park. This project will significantly increase
in providing trained manpower for hydro projects. employment opportunities in the region. With this
Himachal Pradesh is one of the leading states in project, Himachal Pradesh became one of the four
this field. This will help in enhancing the skills of the states in the country where medical device parks are
youth and provide ample employment opportunities being set up. Along with this, Prime Minister Modi
in the hydropower sector. The Prime Minister also also laid the foundation stone of the four-laning of
laid the foundation stone of Medical Device Park to about 31 km long national highway from Pinjore
be constructed at Nalagarh at a cost of about Rs 350 to Nalagarh on National Highway-105, at a cost of
crore. An MoU worth over Rs 800 crore has already about Rs 1690 crore.

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