PM Modi to inaugurate three key projects in Gujarat on October 24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate three key projects, including ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’, in Gujarat, on Saturday via video a video link, officials said on Thursday.
He will inaugurate a Paediatric Heart Hospital attached with U.N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre and a Mobile Application for tele-cardiology at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad and also a Ropeway at Girnar.
To provide day-time power supply for irrigation, the Gujarat government had recently announced the ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’. Under this scheme, farmers will be able to avail power supply from 5 am to 9 pm.
The state government has allocated Rs 3,500 crore for installing transmission infrastructure under this scheme by 2023. Dahod, Patan, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Kheda, Tapi, Valsad, Anand and Gir-Somnath have been included under the Scheme for 2020-21. The remaining districts will be covered in a phase-wise manner by 2022-23.