PM Narendra Modi set to gift Assam projects worth Rs 14,000 crore tomorrow

GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday lay the foundation stone, inaugurate and dedicate to the nation projects worth more than Rs 14,000 crore, including AIIMS Guwahati and several railway projects.
Modi will also witness a mega Bihu dance performance by more than 10,000 artists organised by the Assam government in order to globally showcase the state's traditional dance as a mascot of the cultural identity and life of the Assamese people.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state's attempt to create a new Guinness World Record with the largest Bihu dance of over 10,000 artists in a single venue and another record of the largest Assamese dhol played by more than 3,000 artists in a single venue will be made on Thursday instead of Friday as announced earlier.
AIIMS-Guwahati will be Modi’s 1st stop on Bihu
Earlier, the Guinness attempt was scheduled for Friday in the presence of PM Narendra Modi. But if we set the record we will get the certificate only on April 15. So we have advanced the Guinness attempt by a day so that the Guinness authorities can hand us the certificate in the presence of the PM,” Sarma said, adding that on Friday the mega Bihu performance will be held in the PM’s presence.
Modi’s first stop will be the newly built campus of AIIMS Guwahati on the outskirts of the city where he will dedicate the premier healthcare institute, the foundation stone of which was also laid by the PM in May 2017, to the nation. Built at a cost of over Rs 1,120 crore, AIIMS Guwahati is a state-of-the-art hospital having a capacity of 750 beds, including 30 AYUSH beds. This hospital will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students. The PM will also dedicate to the nation three state medical colleges at Nalbari, Nalbari, Nagaon. Each medical college has attached 500-bed teaching hospitals with OPD and IPD services.