PM Modi Goa Visit Highlights: New Airport Named After Ex-CM Manohar Parrikar
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra and Goa today to dedicate several projects to the nation and to lay foundation stones for many others.
PM will first visit Nagpur to inaugurate different projects including Nagpur Metro Phase-I. He will also dedicate rail projects worth over 1500 crore rupees to the nation. PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone for several other projects in the city.
In a bid to boost the country’s health research, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the National Institute for One Health in Nagpur. PM will also dedicate to the nation AIIMS Nagpur. The hospital's foundation stone was also laid by the Prime Minister in July 2017. It has been developed at a cost of more than Rs 1,575 crore
Notably, PM Modi will also inaugurate the Centre for Research, Management and Control of Haemoglobinopathies, aimed to research haemoglobinopathies and similar diseases in the country. The institutes are being set up keeping in view India’s efforts in boosting health research to serve vulnerable populations.
The foundation stone for the National Institute for One Health, Nagpur, and the inauguration of ICMR-Centre for Research, Management and Control of Haemoglobinopathies, Chandrapur, will be done by PM Modi in the presence of Dr Bharti Pravin Pawar, Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare and Dr. Rajiv Bahl, Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research.
After Nagpur, the PM will proceed to Goa to dedicate projects to the nation and will participate in the 9th World Ayurveda Congress.
He will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate projects worth Rs 75,000 crore in Maharashtra's Nagpur. He will also inaugurate Mopa International Airport in Goa later in the evening.
Notably, PM Modi has laid the foundation of most of the projects that he will be inaugurating today.
PM Modi inaugurates Nagpur Metro, 2nd int'l Airport in Goa
PM Modi visits Nagpur, Maharashtra to inaugurate the first phase of Nagpur Metro. He also lays down the foundation of the Phase-II metro of the city. He took a ride and interacted with students in the metro.
After the Nagpur visit, PM Modi reached Panji, the capital of Goa to attend the valedictory function of the 9th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) in Panaji, where he inaugurates 3 national AYUSH institutes including one for Goa as well and praise how the world is accepting Ayurveda.
Mopa International Airport, the second airport of Goa also get inaugurated by PM Modi which was founded by him in 2016.
PM Modi Credits UDAN Scheme For The Boost In Air Travel Infra
While Speaking at the inauguration of the international airport in Mopa, Goa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India has become the third largest aviation market. “Air connectivity has increased in the country and today air travel has become accessible to everyone,” he said.
Due to Schemes like UDAN and the boost towards development of air travel infrastructure, India has doubled the number of airports in the last eight years.
Centre Believes All Citizens Must be Provided Air Services says PM Modi
PM Narendra Modi mentioned that "We took the initiative to take air travel to the smallest cities in the country. We have expanded the airport network in the country and 72 airports have been built in the last 8 years."
He says his Government is making air services affordable for all citizens, not just a select few.
"In 2015, the no of domestic tourists was 14 crore; last year, it reached 70 crores,” PM Modi.
Airport will boost Goa's Tourism Industry, says PM Modi
PM Modi Praises State Government by saying earlier government never give preference to infrastructure.
He said, "The state-of-the-art airport in Mopa will significantly improve connectivity as well as boost tourism in Goa. “In earlier government, vote bank was given much more important than infrastructure and development.”
Mopa Airport named after the name of Former Goa CM Manohar Parrikar
PM Modi says he is happy that this International Airport in Mopa, Goa has been named after Late Manohar Parrikar Ji.
He says their government's approach towards creating infrastructure can be seen today with this airport launched.
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