Projects Worth ₹ 6,800 Crore for Tripura and Meghalaya

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Tripura and Meghalaya on Sunday and inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of projects worth more than ₹ 6,800 crore there.

In Tripura, PM Modi will launch projects worth over ₹ 4,350 crores.

The PMO noted that PM Modi has focussed on ensuring that everyone has a house of their own. In a key step towards this, he will be launching the ‘Grih Pravesh’ programme. These houses developed at a cost of over ₹ 3,400 crores will cover over two lakh beneficiaries.

Prime Minister will inaugurate a project for widening of the Agartala bypass (Khayerpur-Amtali) NH-08, which will help ease traffic congestion in Agartala city, it said.

He will also lay the foundation stones for 32 roads of more than 230 kilometres in length under the PMGSY III (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana) and for improvement of 112 roads covering a distance of over 540 kilometres.