Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ahmedabad for a three-day visit to Gujarat on Monday.
He was received by Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat and State Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel at the airport. The Prime Minister later visited the Command and Control Centre for Schools in Gandhinagar. He also dedicated to the nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects at Banas Dairy Sankul in Diyodar, Banaskantha.
Spread over 151 acres, the newly built campus has been set up at a cost of nearly £60 million, Banas Dairy’s chairman Shankar Chaudhary said. Modi has also dedicated Banas community radio station to the nation. The community radio station has been established to provide farmers key scientific information related to agriculture and animal husbandry. It is expected that the radio station will connect with over 500,000 farmers of about 1,700 villages.
Simultaneously, e-inauguration of renovated cheese and whey powder plant in Palanpur, Banas gobar gas plant and bio-CNG station at Dama (Deesa) was also conducted while the PM digitally laid foundation of four new gobar gas plants at Khimana, Ratanpura (Bhildi), Radhanpur and Thavar (Dhanera). The new dairy plant will have processing capacity of 30,00,000 litres per day (LLPD) milk, produce 80 tonnes of butter, 1 LLPD ice-cream, 20 tonnes of condensed milk (khoya) and six tonnes of chocolate a day.
The potato plant having capacity to process 48,00,000 tonnes of potatoes per day will produce different types of processed potato products like french fries, potato chips, aloo tikki, patties, many of which are exported in other countries.
Later in the evening he laid the foundation stone of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar. Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and WHO’s Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus were present on the occasion.
On April 20, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Global AYUSH Investment and Innovation Summit at Gandhinagar. Thereafter, at around 3:30 PM, he will attend the Adijati Maha Sammelan in Dahod and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development projects.
