PM Modi inaugurates development projects worth over ₹34,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh
The Hindu
PM Modi inaugurates and lays foundation stones for development projects worth ₹34,700 crore in Uttar Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 10 inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of several development projects worth more than ₹34,700 crore across the State.
The PM was accompanied by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and other BJP leaders as he visited the Manduri area of the district.
Mr. Modi inaugurated Azamgarh, Shravasti, Chitrakoot, and Aligarh airports and a new terminal of Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Lucknow.
The PM also inaugurated Maharaja Suhel Dev State University, Azamgarh, constructed at a cost of ₹108 crore.
He inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of five major National Highway projects worth ₹11,500 crore.
More than 5,342 km of roads built in 59 UP districts under the PM Gram Sadak Yojna worth ₹3,700 crore were also inaugurated by him.
The PM inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 12 railway projects across U.P. worth ₹8,200 crore.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists