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Nation Gifts to Odisha
Record investment in infrastructure development
Promoting
cultural and
spiritual bonds
Rapid infrastructure investment is being disha and West Bengal got the first
made in the country, with the government indigenously built Vande Bharat Express
focusing particularly on railway projects. Otrain. This train will run between Puri,
This is because, even today, the majority the city of Lord Jagannath, and Howrah, the
of countrymen prefer train rides for long industrial city of West Bengal. The train will
distances. Modern railway infrastructure pass through the districts of Kharkha, Cuttack,
is rapidly developing, whether it is the Jajpur, Bhadrak, and Balasore in Odisha, as
construction of platforms along the well as West Medinipur and East Medinipur in
West Bengal. The 500-kilometre journey will be
lines of airports or modern facilities. On completed in six and a half hours.
May 18, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
gifted the Vande Bharat Express train Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that
to Odisha and also inaugurated and laid if the country remains united, its collective
potential can be realised. The Vande Bharat
the foundation for railway projects worth Express reflects such beliefs. This train will
over Rs 8,000 crore. strengthen Puri's spiritual and cultural ties
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