Modi in Silvassa LIVE: PM Hands Over House Keys to PMAY (Urban) Beneficiaries, Inaugurates NAMO Medical College

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute at Silvassa town in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. After inaugurating the medical college, the first in the Union Territory, he inspected facilities on the campus. He also interacted with workers involved in the construction of the college complex. He was accompanied by Praful Patel, the administrator of the Union Territory.

People light up mobile flashlights as they welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today interacted with construction workers who built the NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute in Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

News agency ANI quoted PM Modi as saying, “Now our Silvassa is not the same as before, it has now become cosmopolitan. There will not be any corner of India whose people do not live in Silvassa. Today again I have got the opportunity to inaugurate new projects worth about Rs 5,000 crores… You had given me the opportunity to lay the foundation stone of many of the projects that were inaugurated today.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over house keys to some of the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) at a function in Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Addressing a gathering in Silvassa, he said, “The Central government is following the mantra of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayas’. In the last nine years, we have developed a new style of working in the country. Now the work for which the foundation is laid, every effort is also made to complete it fast.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday dedicated to the nation various developmental projects, including the Kochi Water Metro, and said as states develop, the country will develop faster. He said the central government lays emphasis on cooperative federalism and believes that if the states develop, it will help in the development of the country. “As Kerala develops, India will develop faster,” Modi said at an event held at the Central Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram.

Parvathy S Nair, a student of a Kenndriya Vidhyalaya school in Thiruvananthapuram, is yet to believe that the Prime Minister of the country stood before her and listened patiently to the Malayalam poem which she rendered and lavished praise upon her. So was the feeling of Abhijith Pradeep, another city school student, who had a brief chat in Hindi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he had seen only on television and newspapers so far. These children were among a group of selected school students who got a chance to interact with Modi on board Vande Bharat Express train before its flag-off from the central railway station here on Monday and became its first travellers, reports news agency PTI.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday expressed the state’s gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allocating a Vande Bharat train for the state and dedicating several development projects to the nation. This is for the first time that the CM, who has been aggressively campaigning for the proposed SilverLine semi-high speed rail corridor project, is making any remark regarding the southern state’s reception of the Vande Bharat.

PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched the Kerala water metro and flagged off the state’s first Vande Bharat express. “Today, Kerala got its first Vande Bharat Train while Kochi got its water metro. Various connectivity and development projects were inaugurated as well,” he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched India’s first water metro in Kerala Kochi. Earlier, CM Pinarayi Vijayan had termed the project as a “dream project” of the state that would accelerate the growth and development of Kochi.

PM Narendra Modi along with Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, CM Pinarayi Vijayan and MP Shashi Tharoor arrives at Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station where he will be flagging off the Vande Bharat Express train.

The Kerala Water Metro service would begin soon from High Court-Vypin terminals to Vyttila-Kakkanad terminals, the Chief Minister said in his Facebook post.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday termed the Kochi Water Metro, set to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, as a “dream project” of the state that would accelerate the growth and development of Kochi. PM Modi would launch the Kochi Water Metro service in a function here on April 25.

India is set to get it’s first water metro today as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to flag off the Kochi Water Metro later in the day. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had earlier termed the Kochi Water Metro a “dream project” of the state that would accelerate the growth and development of Kochi. READ MORE

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