PM Modi may visit Gujarat on September 30

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Gujarat on September 30. Though there’s no official announcement on this as yet, it is learnt that he will be visiting Kutch, Rajkot and Anand.

The Prime Minister during his visit may inaugurate Rs 26 crore museum on Mahatma Gandhi at Alfred high school in Rajkot. This is the school where Mahatma Gandhi was a student. The government has now converted it into a museum.

The Prime Minister is also likely to inaugurate Chocolate plant of Amul at Anand in Central Gujarat. The plant to be inaugurated is located at the Tribhuvandas Food Factory at Mogar near Anand. Modi will also launch the plant for making ‘Take Home Ration’ called ‘Balbhog’ and ‘Ready to use therapeutic food(RUTF)’ set up by the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Ltd(Amul dairy). PM will address a gathering of nearly 75,000 milk producers and locals. The milk union has developed 40 new types of chocolates. Rs 150 crore plant is spreading on 1.50 lakh square ft area. The dairy union has scaled up its capacity to make chocolates from 4,000 tonnes/year to 20,000 tonnes/year.

PM also may inaugurate Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. Ltd’s 5 MTPA LNG import terminal at Mundra in Kutch which will be third terminal is Gujarat to import supercooled natural gas, or liquified natural gas (LNG) in cryogenic ships. This LNG will then be converted into gaseous state and transported by pipelines to consumers.

The Prime Minister may also attend a function in Jamnagar district in which 100 years of independence of European nation Poland will be celebrated. Half-a-dozen World War II survivors, who were among the 1,000 orphaned Polish children given refuge by Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji, the king of erstwhile Navanagar (now Jamnagar) after their country was invaded by German Nazi soldiers in 1942 may attend this function with their spouses. It will be a diplomatic function at Balachadi where nearly 40 people from Poland, including senior ministers and diplomats, will participate along with Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani and Jam Shatrushaliyaji, son of late Jam Digvijaysinhji. Poland was invaded by Hitler’s Nazi forces and Stalin’s Red army in 1939. Most of the families from Soviet-dominated areas were sent to labour camps from where they were loaded in trucks and sent to Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan and India. Many families made it to the refugee camp while Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji gave shelter to nearly 1,000 children and built the school for them.Jam Saheb had also arranged for seven cooks from Goa to cook food that was less spicy for these children, who went on to stay in Balachadi, the summer palace of the royal family, for four years.

It should be noted that Surat Municipal Corporation(SMC) has also sought PM’s time for inauguration of iconic cable-stayed bridge over river Tapi. Gujarat government also expects PM to launch India’s first ro-pax ferry vessel for Dahej-Ghogha route. Dedication of new defense vehicle manufactured at L&T facility in Surat is another possibility. Ground breaking for reconstruction of Surat railway station is also on cards.

PM is already scheduled to visit Kevadia Colony in Central Gujarat on the last day of next month to inaugurate world’s tallest statue near Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam. He may launch seaplane service on the same day.

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