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Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a host of development projects worth over Rs 3,300 crore in Assam ahead of the Assembly polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in West Bengal | Photo Credit: ANI
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PM Modi launches 5 mega projects in Assam worth Rs 3,222 crore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday dedicated to the nation Rs 3,222 crore five mega gas and oil-based projects and education in Assam.
While speaking at an impressive public gathering at Silapathar in eastern Assam s Dhemaji district, the Prime Minister said that the Centre and Assam government are working together for the all-round development of the state and maximum welfare of the people. Asserting the need to continue with the double engine of Centre and state government to expedite development in Assam, he said : The Assam government is taking forward all sectors and would soon implement the national education policy whereby the local people will be able to get medical and engineering education in the local language.
Modi, not Manmohan Singh, ensured Assam gets its due of oil royalty, says Dharmendra Pradhan
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Last Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 05:51 PM IST
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Pradhan, speaking at the function where the prime minister dedicated three projects of his ministry worth Rs 3,222 crore to the nation, said that Singh not only refused to pay the royalty to Gujarat when Modiji was the chief minister but also did not to give it to Assam which he represented in the Rajya Sabha.
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who ensured that Assam gets its due of Rs 6,000 crore oil royalty which the earlier Manmohan Singh-led UPA government had failed to give to the state. Pradhan, speaking at the function where the prime minister dedicated three projects of his ministry worth Rs 3,222 crore to the nation, said that Singh not only refused to pay the royalty to Gujarat when Modiji was the chief minister but also did not to g
PM Modi to launch several projects in poll bound Assam, West Bengal today
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Published: Monday, February 22, 2021, 8:10 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 22: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will visit poll bound West Bengal and Assam and dedicate to the nation pile and gas sector projects, engineering colleges and railway projects.
During his visit to Assam the PM will dedicate projects of the oil sector at an event organised at Silapathar at 11.30 am, besides inaugurating the Dhemaji Engineering College and laying the foundation stone for Sualkuchi Engineering College.
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The PM will also inaugurate several railway projects in West Bengal s Hooghly district at 4.30 pm. PM Modi will inaugurate the INDMAX unit at Indian Oil s Bongaigaon refinery, Oil India Limited s secondary tank farm at Dibrugarh and a gas compressor station at Hebeda village in Tinsukia, the Prime Minister s Office said.