Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will be on one-day visit to Gujarat on Wednesday, August 23.

The Prime Minister will arrive at Surat airport in IAF plane at 10.15 am from where he will reach district headquarters Valsad in South Gujarat at 10.50 am. He will reach Jujva village at 11 am and performed E-gruh pravesh of beneficiaries of 1,15,551 affordable housing units built at a cost of Rs 1727 crore under Pradhanmantri Aawas Yojana.

He will also distribute skill certificates and appointment letters to 5,000 women under Mukhyamantri Gramoday Yojana. He will also perform Bhoomi Poojan of Rs 576 crore Astol group water supply scheme for interior villages of Dharampur and Kaprada areas of Valsad district. He will also address a public meeting. The water project will offer potable water to 124 villages and 816 hamlets of Kaprada taluka, 50 villages and 212 hamlets of Dharampur taluka through 77 km rising main pipeline and 919.50 km distribution pipeline and fill 6 tall water tanks, 27 underground water tanks and 1201 village underground tanks. Water supplied through this scheme will reach at Vavar village which is located at 1853 ft height compared to Madhuban dam’s level.

The Prime Minister will leave for Junagadh at 12.30 pm and arrive at Junagadh Police Training College ground at 2.25 pm. He will dedicate Rs 275 crore newly built 300-bed Civil hospital here. he will also inaugurate Junagadh Agricultural University’s Polytechnic in Agro Processing building and Girls’ hostel of new Fisheries College. He will also dedicate Sorath Junagadh District Cooperative Milk Producer Federation’s new milk processing plant and launch three development works of Junagadh Municipal Corporation. Thus in one day he will dedicate/launch works for Rs 450 crore development projects in Junagadh. Shri Modi will also address a public meeting on this occasion.

At 6 pm, Shri Modi will attend the convocation function of Gujarat Forensic Science University in Gandhinagar and distribute certificates and medals to students. He will also deliver convocation address on this occasion.

Shri Modi will attend Shri Somnath Trust’s meeting at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar at 7.30 pm and leave for Ahmedabad at 8.30 pm. He will leave for Delhi from Sardar Patel airport at 9.00 pm.

The trip of PM was to take place earlier on July 20 but was re-scheduled due to flood and heavy rain.

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