Guwahati:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate, consecrate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth more than Rs 6,800 crore for the North East.
The projects span a wide range of sectors, including housing, road construction, agriculture, telecom, IT, tourism and hospitality.
PM Modi will participate in the Northeastern Council’s Golden Jubilee celebrations and will attend the meeting in Shillong. He will also launch the ‘Grih Pravesh’ program for more than two lakh beneficiaries under ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana’ or PMAY – urban and rural – schemes in Agartala
The BJP is shifting its focus to Tripura and Meghalaya after Gujarat, where elections were recently held.
Both Tripura and Meghalaya go to the polls in the next two months and are seen as crucial elections for the BJP.
In Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, the Prime Minister was to preside over the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the North Eastern Council (NEC), a regional planning body for 8 northeastern states, including Sikkim.
The governors and prime ministers of all eight northeastern states will attend the NEC program.
From Meghalaya, the Prime Minister would go to Tripura where he would address a public gathering at Swami Vivekananda’s compound in Agartala and inaugurate some projects and lay the foundation stones for a few projects.
He will also interact with beneficiaries of various welfare schemes as well as MLAs and ministers.
He will also hold a meeting of the BJP Core Committee for Tripura, BJP sources added.