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Gifts to Odisha | NATION

Inauguration and foundation stone laying of
SEVERAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ODISHA
In line with the commitment to the holistic Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the
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development of Odisha, Prime Minister Odisha Vision Document. This vision will
Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the outline an ambitious and future-ready roadmap
foundation stone of several development for inclusive growth.
projects worth over Rs 18,600 crore.
n Launch of the ‘Baraputra Aitihya Gram Yojana’
The projects cover key sectors including initiative, commemorating the contributions
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drinking water, irrigation, agriculture of eminent Odia people. It aims to promote
infrastructure, health infrastructure, rural roads museums, libraries, and cultural tourism while
and bridges, sections of national highways, and respecting the heritage of Odisha.
a new railway line.
Honouring over 16.50 lakh Lakhpati
Expanding rail connectivity in Boudh district,
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PM Modi flagged off new train services. Didis as a symbol of prosperity and
self-reliance in the state, PM Modi
Flagged off 100 electric buses under the Capital
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Region Urban Transport System to promote across the state.
clean energy and sustainable transport.

heritage has become the basis of India’s progress, state. Industries related to petroleum, petro-
the role of Odisha has become even bigger now. chemicals, textiles, and plastics will get a boost
In the last year, Odisha has imbibed the mantra here. This will create a huge network of small and
of ‘development as well as heritage’. PM Modi micro industries here, and it will bring lakhs of
said that the development of 21st-century India new employment opportunities for the youth.
will gain momentum from Eastern India. This PM Modi said that there are many schemes of
is the period of Purvodaya. After the change of the Centre, whose full benefits were not available
power in Odisha a year ago, this campaign has to Odisha earlier. Today, people are getting the
gained more momentum. Industrial areas are benefit of schemes of both the Central and State
expanding from Paradip to Jharsuguda in Odisha. governments. Not only this, the guarantees given
This is giving strength to the minerals and port- to mothers, sisters, farmers, and youth have
led economy in the state. Not only this, but the been implemented at a fast pace. PM Modi said
central government is spending thousands of that a major achievement of the government
crores of rupees on road, rail, and air connec- has been the empowerment of the deprived.
tivity in Odisha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Unfortunately, in the past, the tribal society was
said that the establishment of a mega dual feed constantly neglected; they had to face back-
cracker and downstream unit in Paradip, a crude wardness, Poverty . However, in the past years,
oil storage facility in Chandikhol, the construction we have worked to take the tribal society out of
of an LNG terminal in Gopalpur, and many such the environment of violence and take it on a new
steps will establish Odisha as a big industrial path of development. n

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