{"id":309530,"date":"2019-02-17T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309530"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T15:25:45","slug":"pm-modi-visits-hazaribagh-in-jharkhand-unveils-several-development-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-visits-hazaribagh-in-jharkhand-unveils-several-development-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi visits Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, unveils several Development Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited Hazaribagh in Jharkhand and unveiled several Development Projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Governor of Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu, Union Minister Jayant Sinha and Jharkhand CM Raghuvar Das were also present among other dignitaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addressing the gathering Modi said \u201cI pay homage to Vijay Soreng, the brave son of Jharkhand who laid his life for the nation. At every step, we will have to take care of the families of martyrs\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Modi inaugurated the Medical Colleges at Hazaribagh, Dumka and Palamu. The foundation stone of these colleges was laid by Modi in 2017. The new Medical colleges are built at a cost of Rs 885 crores. Each college campus is made disabled friendly. The modern medical facilities will benefit 1.5 crores people of 11 districts of Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modi said, \u201cit is this land of Jharkhand that witnessed the launch of Ayushman Bharat Yojana that has benefitted lakhs of people across India including thousands from Jharkhand and constant efforts are being made to improve the health infrastructure of the state\u201d. He laid the Foundation Stone for four 500-bedded hospitals at Hazaribagh, Dumka, Palamu and Jamshedpur.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modi said that health and safe drinking water are inseparable, and the water projects unveiled in Jharkhand will ensure the good health of its people.<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Modi inaugurated four Rural Water Supply Schemes in Ramgarh and Hazaribagh districts. He laid the Foundation Stone for an additional six Rural Water Supply Schemes in these two districts along with Foundation Stone for water supply schemes in areas inhabited by Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups. He also laid the Foundation Stone for Urban Water Supply Scheme in Hazaribagh. At a cost of Rs 500 crores, this project will supply safe drinking water to 56000 households of Hazaribagh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Modi also inaugurated the Sahibganj Sewerage Treatment Plant, and the Madhusudan Ghat, under the Namami Gange initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n

He distributed cheques to select beneficiaries to mark the launch of the DBT scheme for farmers to purchase mobile phones under e-NAM.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modi said\u00a0\u201cthe scheme will benefit 27 lakh farmers. With the help of a smartphone, they would not only get weather information but information on crop prices, government schemes and new methods of farming also\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modi inaugurated the Only Women Engineering College at Ramgarh. He said that it is first such college in Eastern India and only third in entire India where only women will study engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Foundation Stone for the Centre for Tribal Studies, Acharya Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh was also laid by PM Modi. He said that the institute will help in garnering and spreading the knowledge on tribal ways and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Modi distributed packed milk to select school-children to mark the launch of Kanha Milk Scheme for students in government schools. The students will get 200 ml of milk every day which will help in fighting malnourishment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modi said, \u201cI hope each child will realise her full potential and make the nation proud\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He reiterated that his government is making efforts to preserve and promote the memories of tribal heroes of our freedom struggle in museums and memorials. The Birsamunda Museum of Jharkhand is one such example.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited Hazaribagh in Jharkhand and unveiled several Development Projects. Governor of Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu, Union Minister Jayant Sinha and Jharkhand CM Raghuvar Das were also present among other dignitaries. Addressing the gathering Modi said \u201cI pay homage to Vijay Soreng, the brave son of Jharkhand who laid his life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[10891,955,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309532,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309530\/revisions\/309532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}