Modi to visit Kashmir today, set to launch several projects

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will be on a day-long talk over with to Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, overlaying all three regions of Jammu, Srinagar and Ladakh.

The talk over with comes in the backdrop of his executive asking safety forces to suspend anti-militancy operations in the state as part of a people-centric outreach coinciding with the month of Ramzaan. In his Independence Day cope with closing year, the PM had noted that the Kashmir factor might be resolved now not through bullets or abuses, however through embracing Kashmiris.

Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to attend the remaining ceremony of the beginning centenary celebrations of the 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche in Leh. At the similar tournament, he's going to unveil a plaque to mark the graduation of work at the Zoji La tunnel, which is able to attach Baltal and Minamarg.

The 14-km long tunnel will be India's longest highway tunnel and Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired through the Prime Minister, had previous this year authorized development, operation and maintenance of this tunnel at the Srinagar-Leh segment of NH-1A, at a total price of Rs 6,800 crore.

In Srinagar, the Prime Minister will dedicate the 330 MW Kishanganga Hydropower Station to the nation on the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC). Modi will even lay the basis stone of Srinagar Ring Road.

The 42.1-km, four-lane highway will link Galandar in West Srinagar to Sumbal in Badnipora district.


Security has been beefed up in Srinagar forward of PM's talk over with


At the General Zorawar Singh Auditorium in Jammu, the Prime Minister will lay the basis stone of Pakul Dul Power Project and Jammu Ring Road. He will even inaugurate the Tarakote Marg and ropeway of Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board. The Tarakote Marg will facilitate pilgrims visiting the shrine.


The ring roads in Srinagar and Jammu are geared toward decreasing traffic congestion at those cities and making highway commute safer and faster.


Modi will even attend the convocation of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology in Jammu.


Modi to visit Kashmir today, set to launch several projects Modi to visit Kashmir today, set to launch several projects Reviewed by Kailash on May 19, 2018 Rating: 5
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