As in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a slew of developmental projects in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh including an AIIMS at Bilaspur, and participate in the famous Kullu Dussehra celebrations during his visit to the State on Wednesday.
Ahead of the visit BJP president JP Nadda and Union Minister Anurag Thakur visited the spot to oversee the preparation at Luhnu ground at Bilaspur. Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat would be electing new assemblies by the year-end.
The Prime Minister has also inaugurated a number of developmental projects in Gujarat including a super specialty hospital. On September 29, he laid the foundation stone and dedicated various projects worth more than Rs 3,400 crore in Surat, Gujarat.
Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth over Rs 3,650 crore and also address a public meeting in Himachal Pradesh, an official statement said. It said Modi's vision and commitment to strengthening health services across the country is being showcased again with the inauguration of AIIMS, Bilaspur.
The Prime Minister had laid the hospital's foundation stone in October 2017 and it has been established under the Centre's Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, the statement said.
AIIMS, Bilaspur, constructed at a cost of more than Rs 1,470 crore, is a state-of-the-art hospital with 18 specialty and 17 super-specialty departments, 18 modular operation theatres and 750 beds, including 64 ICU beds.
Spread over 247 acres, the hospital is equipped with 24-hour emergency and dialysis facilities, modern diagnostic machines such as ultrasonography, CT scan and MRI among others. It also has a Jan Aushadhi Kendra and a 30-bed AYUSH block. The hospital has also set up a Centre for Digital Health to provide health services in tribal and inaccessible areas of the state, it said.
Specialist health services will also be provided by the hospital through health camps in the inaccessible tribal and high Himalayan regions such as Kaza, Saluni, and Keylong. The hospital will admit 100 students for MBBS and 60 students for nursing courses every year, it added. Among other development projects, the prime minister will lay the foundation stone for a 31-km-long project for four laning of NH-105 from Pinjore to Nalagarh, worth over Rs 1,690 crore.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone for Medical Device Park at Nalagarh, which will be built at a cost of around Rs 350 crore. Memorandums of Understanding of more than Rs 800 crore have already been signed for setting up industries in this park, it said, adding the project will significantly enhance employment opportunities in the region.
Noting that the International Kullu Dussehra Festival will be celebrated from October 5 to 11 at Dhalpur Ground in Kullu, the statement said event is unique in sense that it is the congregation of worshippers of more than 300 deities of the valley.
It will be the first-time ever that the prime minister will participate in the celebrations, it said.