Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the groundwork for several development projects totaling Rs 7,500 crore across several industries on Thursday.
Meanwhile, in Shirdi, Prime Minister Modi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar paid floral tributes to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
PM Modi dedicated the new Shirdi Darshan Queue Complex. It is a cutting-edge modern megastructure designed to give devotees with comfortable waiting rooms.
It has several waiting halls with a combined seating capacity of almost 10 thousand devotees. It has air-conditioned public amenities such as cloakrooms, bathrooms, booking counters, prasad counters, an information center, and so on. The Prime Minister lay the groundwork for the new Darshan Queue Complex in October 2018, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister dedicated to the nation the Nilwande Dam’s left bank canal network (85 kilometers).
It will benefit 182 villages from 7 Tehsils (6 in Ahmednagar district and 1 from Nashik district) by facilitating pipe distribution networks of water. The idea of Nilwande Dam was first conceived in 1970. It is being developed at a cost of about Rs 5177 crore, it stated.
During the public programme, the Prime Minister also launched the ‘Namo Shetkari Mahasanman Nidhi Yojana’.
The Yojna will benefit more than 86 lakh beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana in Maharashtra, by providing an additional amount of Rs 6000 per year to them.
The PM also inaugurated and dedicated to the nation multiple development projects including Ayush Hospital at Ahmednagar Civil Hospital; Electrification of Kurduwadi-Latur Road railway section (186 Km); 3rd and 4th railway line connecting Jalgaon to Bhusaval (24.46 km); four laning of Sangli to Borgaon section of NH-166 (Package-I); Additional facilities at Manmad Terminal of Indian Oil corporation Limited.