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Nation Gifts to northeast

GIFTS WORTH RS 2450 INAUGURATION AND
CRORE GIVEN TO NORTH EAST FOUNDATION STONE LAYING FOR
FROM SHILLONG SEVERAL PROJECTS IN TRIPURA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and foundation stones of various major initiatives worth
laid the foundation stone of several development over Rs 4,350 crore in Agartala, Tripura. An important
projects worth over Rs 2,450 crore in Shillong, the focus of the Prime Minister has been to ensure that
capital of Meghalaya. PM Modi also dedicated 4G everyone has their own house. With this aim Prime
mobile towers to the country to increase mobile Minister Modi launched the Griha Pravesh program
connectivity. Of these, more than 320 towers have for 2 lakh beneficiaries under PM Awas Yojana-Urban
been built and about 890 are under construction. and PM Awas Yojana-Gramin. These houses have
Inaugurated the Shillong-Diengpasoh road been built at a cost of about Rs 3400 crore.
providing better connectivity to New Shillong
Satellite Township and the new campus of IIM Focusing on improving road connectivity, the Prime
Shillong at Umsawli. Minister inaugurated the project of widening of
He also inaugurated four other road projects Agartala Bypass (Khairpur-Amtali) NH-08. This will
in the three states of Meghalaya, Manipur and help in reducing the traffic congestion in Agartala
Arunachal Pradesh. city.
Inaugurated the Spawn Laboratory at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi also inaugurated the
Mushroom Development Center for Imparting State Institute of Hotel Management in Anandnagar
Entrepreneurial Skills to Farmers in Meghalaya. and the Agartala Government Dental College.
He also inaugurated the Integrated Beekeeping
Development Center in Meghalaya, 21 Hindi SCALES OF DEVELOPMENT IN TRIPURA
libraries in Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and
Assam. The North East is also becoming a gateway
He also laid the foundation stone of Shillong for relations with other countries through road
Technology Park Phase-II along with six road infrastructure like the India-Thailand-Myanmar
projects in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Highway.
Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and Integrated With the construction of an international terminal at
Hospitality and Convention Center at Tura. Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala, connectivity
Technology Park Phase-II is expected to create for the country and abroad has become easier.
more than 3,000 jobs. Under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, more than 7,000
health and wellness centers have been approved in
the North East, of which about 1,000 centers are in
ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY Tripura. In just 3 years, 4 lakh new families of Tripura
IN MEGHALAYA have got the facility of tap water.

In the last 8 years, 5 thousand crore rupees More than 1 lakh pregnant mothers of Tripura
have also got the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Matru
have been spent on the construction of National
Highway in Meghalaya. Compared to the number Vandana Yojana. There has been a 9-fold increase
in the number of women self-help groups in Tripura.
of rural roads built in the 20 years preceding 2014
in Meghalaya, 7 times more roads have been built Lakhs of farmers of Tripura have received more than
Rs 500 crore so far under the PM Kisan Samman
under the Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana in the last
8 years. Nidhi.
Optical fiber coverage has increased 5 times since
2014 in Meghalaya. also laid the foundation stone and inaugurated
39 Eklavya Model Schools are being set up in the development projects worth Rs 6,800 crore in
tribal areas of Meghalaya. Tripura's Agartala and Meghalaya's Shillong. In his
In the past few years, electricity has reached 2 address to the gathering, Prime Minister Narendra
lakh households in Meghalaya for the first time. Modi said, “We are also seeing good results of
About 70,000 houses have been approved for the our efforts to speed up development works and
poor in Meghalaya. make them more effective. With regard to sports
also, the central government is moving ahead
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