Maharashtra Samriddhi Mahamarg inaugurated

13 Dec 2022 CW Team

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation various projects worth more than 750 billion in Maharashtra today. It includes national rail projects worth more than 15 billion, the National Institute of One Health (NIO), Nagpur and the Nag river pollution abatement project, Nagpur. During the programme, the Prime Minister also dedicated the ‘Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Chandrapur’ to the nation and inaugurated the ‘Centre for Research, Management and Control of Hemoglobinopathies, Chandrapur’.

The Prime Minister also flagged off Vande Bharat Express from Nagpur to Bilaspur, dedicated ‘Nagpur Metro Phase I’ to the nation, and laid the foundation stone of ‘Nagpur Metro phase- II’. The Prime Minister also inaugurated Phase - I of Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg which covers a distance of 520 kilometres and connects Nagpur and Shirdi.

The Prime Minister dedicated to the nation, AIIMS Nagpur which is being developed at a cost of more than Rs 1575 crore, is a hospital with state-of-the-art facilities, with OPD, IPD, diagnostic services, Operation theatres and 38 departments covering all major speciality and super speciality subjects of Medical Science. The hospital provides modern healthcare facilities to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and is a boon to the surrounding tribal areas of Gadchiroli, Gondia and Melghat.

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