Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three day tour from Saturday covering five states including Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar and inauguration project worth Rs. 71,000 crore in a major push for case of living in India’s eastern and northeastern region.IN focus will be the PM’s visit to Manipur on Saturday, his first since violence broke out I the state in May 2023. He is set to in augurate project worth Rs. 8,500 crore in the state.
The tour will begin from Mizoram, where at around 10AM in Aizawl, Modi will launch project worth more than Rs. 9,000 crore including the inauguration of the Barabi-Sairang new rail line, built at a cost of over Rs. 8,070 crore, which connect Mizoram’s capital to the Indian Railway network for the first time, Prime minister’s office (PMO) said in a statement on Friday. He will also flag off three new trains in Mizoram — the Sairong–Delhi Rajdhani Express, Sairong–Guwahati Express, and Sairong–Kolkata Express. He will also inaugurate projects related to roads, energy, sports, and education, including the Aizawl Bypass Road, an LPG bottling plant at Maulkhang, a Khelo India Multipurpose Indoor Hall Tuikual, and new residential schools in Mamit and Tlangnuam. He will also address a public gathering in Aizawl.
Manipur officials said PM Modi will hold events in both Kuki and Meitei majority areas and interact with internally displaced people. More than 260 people have been killed and thousands displaced in the ethnic conflict since May 2023. The state has been under President’s rule since February after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by N Biren Singh, who belongs to the Meitei community, quit.