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Assam: On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. An official said that on Saturday morning, PM Modi took the elephant and jeep safari inside Kaziranga National Park of Assam.
On his first visit to the UNESCO World Heritage site, Modi first took an elephant safari in the Mihimukh area of the central Kohora range of the park and then went on a jeep safari inside the same range. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the country the strategically important, much awaited and longest tunnel built at the world’s highest altitude (13000 feet) (Sela Pass). This double lane all-weather tunnel will connect West Kaming and Tawang districts of Arunachal Pradesh. This is the only route to reach LAC.
He was also accompanied by Park Director Sonali Ghosh and other senior forest officials. Kaziranga National Park is famous for its one-horned rhinoceros. Elephants, wild buffalo, swamp deer and tigers are also found in the park. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 0.65 million metric tonnes of Digboi refinery at a cost of 768 crores, from the virtual medium of IOCL’s Bethkuchi Terminal in Guwahati Will inaugurate Prime Minister Modi will keep the cornerstone of expanding up to 1.2 million metric tonnes of 1 million metric tonnes of Guwahati refinery at a cost of Rs. 510 crores.
Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate Pipeline Pariaona worth Rs. 3.992 crores to Guwahati.The visit is crucial as the BJP has started boosting up its preparations in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024, slated to be held in April-May this year. Prime Minister will unveil the 84-foot-high magnificent statue of Lachit Borphukan, the famous General of the Royal Army of the Ahom Kingdom of Assam who defeated the Mughals.
The project also included the construction of Lachit and Tai-Ahom Museum and a 500 seating capacity auditorium. The project is an effort to celebrate the valour of Lachit Borphukan and enhance awareness about him. It will also boost tourism and lead to generation of employment opportunities. PM Narendra Modi arrived in Assam on Friday (March 8) on a two-day visit, during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation of projects worth Rs 18,000 crore.
In the afternoon, Modi landed at Salonibari airport in Tezpur, where he was welcomed by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and others.He then flew to Panbari in Kaziranga in a helicopter, with Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal and state Agriculture Minister Atul Bora, along with Sarma and others, once again extended their welcome to the PM as he landed there.
The PM undertook the last leg of his journey of about 15 kms from the Panbari helipad to the Police Guest House near Central Kohora Range in Kaziranga National Park by road. At the public programme in Jorhat, Prime Minister will inaugurate, dedicate to nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple developmental projects strengthening the health, oil and gas, rail and housing sectors.
Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of projects under Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North Eastern Region (PM-DevINE) scheme including the Medical College & Hospital at Sivasagar and a Hemato-Lymphoid centre in Guwahati.
