All eyes are on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-anticipated go to to Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday on the event of Panchayati Raj Diwas. This shall be his first go to to Jammu and Kashmir within the final two-and-a-half years ever for the reason that Centre abrogated the erstwhile state’s particular standing underneath Section 370 and 35(A) and cut up it into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019.
From Jammu, PM Modi will fly to Palli panchayat within the border district of Samba, the place he’ll handle over 30,000 members of J&Ok’s rural our bodies. LG Manoj Sinha stated that round 700 panchayats throughout the nation shall be nearly linked with the occasion which is predicted to witness the participation of about 1 lakh folks.
He can even launch initiatives value Rs 38,082 crore from Palli that has been billed as India’s first carbon-neutral panchayat. This infrastructure push was an try and showcase how briskly the Union Territory was reworking, officers stated.
The prime minister shall be inaugurating a mega 500 KV photo voltaic plant, arrange in a file time of 20 days, that can present clear electrical energy to all its 340 households.
The prime minister, accompanied by Union Minister for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh, can even inaugurate the 8.45-km, all-weather Banihal-Qazigund highway tunnel that has been constructed for Rs 2,100 crore. This will scale back the space between Jammu and Srinagar by 16 km and the journey time by nearly two hours.
Modi can even lay the muse of the 850-megawatt Ratle and the 540-megawatt Kwar hydel energy initiatives which were constructed over the Chenab. These initiatives are anticipated to double the Union Territory’s power-generation capability within the subsequent 4 years.
The prime minister had final visited Jammu and Kashmir to have fun Diwali with Army troops in Rajouri on October 27, 2019, and later got here to Nowshera on November 3, 2021. However, his go to to Jammu is the primary after the abrogation of Article 370.
The go to comes at a time when the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir is about to finish its work, with elections within the newly shaped UT anticipated quickly.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”