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New Chapter of Development Nation

DEVELOPING POORVANCHAL
DEVE LOPIN G POORVAN CHAL

ACQUIRING NEW DIMENSIONS
ACQUIR IN G N E W DIMEN SION S

“We inaugurate the projects, we lay the foundation stone for.” Country is witnessing
these words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi being converted into reality. On
December 7, three projects including new building of AIIMS, Fertilizer Factory and
ICMR Regional Center in Gorakhpur were inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi.
Foundation stone of two of these projects were laid on 22 July 2016 by Modi. The new
projects of Fertilizer plant and health infrastructure have added new dimensions to the
development of Poorvanchal after the Expressway Projects.

ttar Pradesh has played a major role in the Minister, Narendra Modi took new steps for better
campaign for a self-reliant India. With better health facilities. Cleanliness was made a movement,
Ucoordination of the center and the state, all those connecting common people with Ayushman Bharat,
areas, which were earlier facing lack of basic facilities providing free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh were
due to political neglect, are joining the mainstream some of the initiatives in this direction. Launched
of development. A fortnight after the construction Jal Jeevan Mission for pure drinking water and
of the expressway in Purvanchal, re-opening the ensured cleanliness by construction of toilets in
fertilizer factory, shut down three-decades ago, and every household. Campaign against communicable
construction of a hospital like AIIMS is set to give a diseases and Har Ghar Dastak campaign was carried
new impetus to the development in this area as well out under the National Health Mission. It had fruitful
as the neighboring states. results and there was a reduction in the cases of
Purvanchal was once deprived of facilities and Japanese fever in areas like Purvanchal. With the
also suffered from the curse of many serious coordination of the Center and the state, the entire
diseases. One such disease, known as Japanese eastern Uttar Pradesh along with Purvanchal has
encephalitis or meningitis, was no less than a now come out of the Japanese fever. The mortality
curse for Purvanchal. But after becoming the Prime rate due to this has decreased by up to 95%.

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