Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to visit Odisha on Monday. He will unveil projects worth around Rs 15,000 crore in the state. During his brief visit, he will dedicate the new campus of IIT-Bhubaneswar at Aragul.

The campus is built at a cost of Rs 1660 crore. PM will also launch a slew of projects related to health, higher education, road and highways and culture via video conferencing from there.

He will visit the state again, twice next month. Modi will visit Odisha to address two meetings on January 5 and January 16, BJP state in-charge Arun Singh said. 

On Monday, the prime minister will address a public meeting near Khurda. 

The prime minister will unveil several developmental projects worth Rs 15,000 crore in line with his vision of “PURBODAYA” -a prosperous East for building a new India, said Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who took stock of preparations for Modi’s one-day Odisha visit.

Thereafter, the PM will also address a gathering from the foothills of Barunei hills near Khurda – the land of ‘Paika Rebellion’, he added. 

Asserting that a wave of change is now sweeping across Odisha ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019, the BJP state in-charge said the prime minister is all set to visit the state twice in January next year.

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Pradhan said these projects will bring unprecedented development to the state. Modi will lay the foundation stone for a permanent campus of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Berhampur, Paradip-Hyderabad product pipeline, six-laning of the Chandikhole-Bhadrak section of NH-16, construction of Bokaro-Angul section of Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra gas pipeline project and four-laning of Cuttack-Angul section of NH-42.

The prime minister will also inaugurate new facility of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospital in Bhubaneshwar which came up at a cost of Rs 73.5 crore, official sources said. 

He will also inaugurate the archaeological museum at Lalitgiri, one of the earliest Buddhist settlements in Odisha situated 120 km north of Bhubaneshwar. A thick security blanket has been laid for the PM’s visit, said Inspector General of Police (Central Range), Soumendra Priyadarshi.

(With PTI inputs)