Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a day-long visit to Assam today. Around 10:30 this morning, he will land at the Emergency Landing Facility on Moran Bypass, which was developed along a national highway in the Dibrugarh district, where he will also witness the aerial display of fighter jets and helicopters.
The Emergency Landing Facility is the first of its kind in Northeast India, designed and constructed in coordination with the Indian Air Force to support the landing and take-off of military and civilian aircraft during emergencies.
Mr. Modi will inaugurate and launch various projects worth more than 5,450 crore rupees in Guwahati in the afternoon.
An Akashvani correspondent reports that the Prime Minister will arrive in Guwahati after the Dibrugarh event at around 1 PM and will inaugurate the Kumar Bhaskar Varma Setu, which connects Guwahati and North Guwahati across the Brahmaputra River, at a cost of 3,000 crore rupees.
After the bridge inauguration, the Prime Minister will proceed to Lachit Ghat, a nearby area, to virtually inaugurate the temporary campus of IIM Guwahati and the National Data Centre for the North Eastern Region at Amingaon in the Kamrup district.
In addition, the Prime Minister will launch 225 electric buses under the PM-eBus Sewa Scheme for four cities in India: 100 buses for Guwahati, 50 each for Nagpur and Bhavnagar, and 25 buses for Chandigarh. At 2 PM, the Prime Minister will address a booth meeting of BJP workers in Guwahati.
