Amreli: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a visit to his home state of Gujarat today, and during this visit, he is inaugurating and laying the foundation for development projects worth more than ₹4,800 crore in Amreli district, including about 1,600 projects across Amreli, Jamnagar, Morbi, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Junagadh, Porbandar, Kutch, and Botad districts.

The Prime Minister inaugurates and lays foundation stones for water supply department projects worth ₹705 crore. This includes the inauguration of the Bharatmata Sarovar, built at a cost of ₹35 crore on the Gagadio River in Amreli district. Along with this, he inaugurates 1,000 projects for pit recharge, bore recharge, and well recharge, as well as 590 projects worth ₹20 crore under the Water Resource Department.

The Prime Minister also inaugurates various projects of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) worth over ₹2,800 crore. In addition, he launches the Bhuj-Naliya gauge conversion project under the Railway Department at a cost of ₹1,094 crore.

The PM inaugurates and lays foundation stones for water supply department projects worth ₹705 crore, including ₹112 crore for new projects and ₹644 crore for completed projects. Among these projects are the inauguration of the Navda to Chavand bulk pipeline for Botad district and the foundation stone for the Pasavi Group Augmentation Water Supply Scheme Phase 2 in Bhavnagar district.

The completion of the Navda to Chavand bulk pipeline project provides an additional 28 crore liters of water to 1,298 villages and 36 towns in Botad, Amreli, Junagadh, Rajkot, and Porbandar districts, benefiting around 6.7 million people. Meanwhile, in Bhavnagar district, the water schemes benefit 95 villages in Mahuva, Talaja, and Palitana talukas, serving a population of around 275,000.

Under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, the Gujarat Government and Dholakia Foundation construct Bharatmata Sarovar at a cost of ₹35 crore near Het Ni Haveli in Dudhala, Lathi. A check dam under the Watershed Department, with a storage capacity of 4.50 crore liters, is deepened and widened, increasing its capacity to 24.50 crore liters. This increase raises groundwater levels, providing indirect irrigation benefits to nearby villages.

PM Modi is also inaugurating and laying the foundation for various NHAI projects worth ₹2,811 crore, including the inauguration of four projects worth ₹2,185 crore and the foundation of a project worth ₹626 crore.

The four NHAI projects he inaugurates include the four-laning of the Dhrol-Bhadra-Patiya sections of NH 151A at a cost of ₹768 crore and the four-laning of the Dwarka-Khambhaliya-Devariya sections of NH 151A at a cost of ₹1,025 crore. The foundation stone is laid for a four-laning project from Dhrol Bypass in Jamnagar district to Amran in Morbi district, costing ₹626 crore.

Modi also dedicates the Bhuj-Naliya gauge conversion project to the nation. The project, costing ₹1,094 crore, includes 24 major and 254 minor bridges, along with three road overbridges and 30 road underbridges, accelerating socio-economic development in Kutch district.

Additionally, the Prime Minister lays the foundation for ₹200 crore worth of tourism-related projects, including world-class sustainable eco-tourism development at the Karli Recharge Reservoir in Mokarsagar, Porbandar district. Thus, ahead of Diwali and the Gujarati New Year, the Prime Minister brings a host of development gifts to Gujarat. DeshGujarat