Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Dehradun to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple projects worth around Rs 18,000 crore today.
“A significant focus of the visit will be on projects to improve road infrastructure, which will make travel smooth and safer, and also increase tourism in the region. This is in line with the vision of the Prime Minister to boost connectivity in the areas which were once considered far-flung,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.
PM Modi is to kickstart the poll campaign for the upcoming Uttarakhand assembly elections by addressing a rally in Dehradun on Saturday.
देवभूमि उत्तराखंड की विकास यात्रा में कल एक स्वर्णिम अध्याय जुड़ेगा। देहरादून में दोपहर 1 बजे मुझे 18 हजार करोड़ रुपये की कई परियोजनाओं के उद्घाटन और शिलान्यास का सौभाग्य प्राप्त होगा। इनमें दिल्ली-देहरादून आर्थिक गलियारा समेत कई प्रोजेक्ट शामिल हैं।https://t.co/nGzlXpGVGN
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Prime Minister is also scheduled to lay foundation stone of eleven development projects. This includes the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor (from Eastern Peripheral Expressway Junction to Dehradun) which will be built at a cost of around Rs 8,300 crore. It will significantly reduce the travel time from Delhi to Dehradun from six hours to around 2.5 hours. It will have seven major interchanges for connectivity to Haridwar, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Yamunagar, Baghpat, Meerut and Baraut. It will have Asia’s largest wildlife elevated corridor (12 kilometres) for unrestricted wildlife movement.
The Dehradun-Paonta Sahib (Himachal Pradesh) road project, to be constructed at a cost of around Rs 1,700 crore, will reduce travel time and provide seamless connectivity between the two places. It will also boost inter-state tourism. The Nazimabad-Kotdwar road widening project will reduce travel time and also improve connectivity to Lansdowne.
