Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a fertiliser factory and AIIMs in Gorakhpur on Tuesday.
With these inaugurations, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s nearly two decades of relentless struggle as a Member of Parliament for farmers’ well-being and efforts to improve people’s health in Gorakhpur and adjoining areas, will come true.
Built at the cost of Rs 8,603 crore on 600 acres, the fertiliser factory will provide direct and indirect employment to 20,000 people. The fertiliser factory, set up and to be operated by Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL), will also ensure availability of adequate fertilisers in Uttar Pradesh and other border states while reducing dependence on imports.
HURL is a joint venture in which Coal India Limited, NTPC, Indian Oil Corporation are the lead promoters while the Fertiliser Corporation of India Limited and Hindustan Fertiliser Corporation Limited are partners.
“The fertiliser factory of Gorakhpur is a dream project of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. As an MP from Gorakhpur from 1998 till March 2017, there was not a single session when Yogi Adityanath did not raise the issue of reopening the factory of the Fertiliser Corporation of India, which was closed down in 1990,” Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Manish Dixit said.
The prime minister had laid the foundation stone for the fertiliser factory on July 22, 2016.
The factory will facilitate a large-scale supply of neem-coated urea to eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as states neighbouring Bihar and UP. Farmers of Nepal will also benefit from the fertilser plant.
On the same date, the prime minister will also inaugurate the AIIMS, equipped with world-class medical facilities. “In fact, Yogi Adityanath is also instrumental in bringing AIIMS in Gorakhpur and making eastern Uttar Pradesh a medical hub,” Dixit said.
The demand for the setting up AIIMS in Gorakhpur was one and a half decades old.
The 300-bed AIIMS at Gorakhpur, costing Rs 1011 crore, will become functional with the inauguration by the prime minister. The capacity of the AIIMS will be expanded to 750 in the coming days. With the inauguration, a 35-bed emergency ward will also come into service, and it will provide quick treatment to critical patients.
The OPD (Outdoor Patient Department) of Gorakhpur AIIMS is operational from February 2019.