On the first day of the state’s spring festival, ‘Rongali Bihu,’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Assam on Friday to dedicate Rs 14,300 crore in development projects.
The prime minister is set to arrive at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 11:30 a.m. and attend the first programme of the day at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati in Changsari, Kamrup (Rural) district.
He will dedicate to the nation the Rs 1,123 crore AIIMS, the first in the North East, as well as virtually inaugurate three medical colleges in Nalbari, Nagaon, and Kokrajhar.
The three medical colleges’ 500-bed tertiary care teaching hospitals with 24 undergraduate departments will begin with 100 annual MBBS student intakes, bringing Assam’s total MBBS student intake to 1500.
The prime minister will distribute 1.1 crore Ayushman cards, allowing beneficiaries to receive cashless healthcare medical treatment benefits of up to Rs five lakh.
He will also lay the groundwork for the Rs 546 crore Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute (AAHII), a state government and IIT Guwahati collaboration.
AAHII’s mission is to foster multidisciplinary research and development in frontier areas of medicine, as well as to promote inventions and innovations in medicine and healthcare. Following the completion of these programmes, the prime minister will travel to Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra to attend the closing ceremony of the Gauhati High Court’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. He will also virtually launch the Rs 1,603 crore methanol plant of Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited at Namrup, lay the foundation for the 12.21 km long Palashbari-Sualkuchi Bridge Project across river Brahmaputra to be built at a cost of Rs 3,200 crore and the foundation of the beautification of Asia’s oldest amphitheatre of the Ahom era Rang Ghar Complex at a total cost of Rs 124 crore. In the evening, the prime minister will depart for New Delhi.
