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By Amiy K Pandey | PUBLISHED: 12, Nov 2018, 17:25 pm IST | UPDATED: 12, Nov 2018, 17:28 pm IST
Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first Multi-Modal Terminal on Ganga River in Varanasi. The Prime Minister will inaugurate two major national highways at his parliamentary constituency Varanasi today at 4 pm. The PM is also expected to announce a number of projects, including his government’s plans regarding the cleaning of the River Ganga. An official of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) said eight projects at the cost of Rs 913.07 crore have been sanctioned for Varanasi under the Namami Gange programme.PM Modi will lay the foundation stone for a sewage management project at Ramnagar worth Rs 72.91 crore. He will also inaugurate the four-lane widening of a road from Babatpur to Varanasi city, phase-1 of Varanasi Ring Road, inland waterways multi-model terminal and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, Daipur.
He will be laying foundation stones for a Drivers’ Training Institute for Varanasi district, a heliport in Ramnagar, a raised footpath on BHU Road etc. His announcements may also include a proposal for a meeting hall at Varanasi Circuit House. The prime minister will address a public meeting during his visit. He will be accompanied by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Satyapal Singh.
The Jal Marg Vikas Project, implemented by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), involves the construction of three multi-modal terminals (Varanasi, Sahibganj and Haldia), two inter-modal terminals, five roll-on-roll-off terminal pairs, a new navigation lock at Farakka in West Bengal, integrated vessel repair and maintenance facility, differential GPS, river training and river information system. The total estimated cost of the project is Rs 5,369.18 crore, which will be equally shared between the Government of India and the World Bank.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Nareceived the first consignment of containers moving on the Ganga from Kolkata to Varanasi on November 12 as India revives its inland waterways for freight movement. The shipment of 16 containers owned by PepsiCo will reach the new multi-modal terminal dedicated to the nation by the PM. The Kolkata to Varanasi route is part of what is called National Waterways-1.
The Multi-Modal Terminal project on River Ganga was started in June 2016 and holds the terminal capacity of 1.26 MPTA. The terminal project in Varanasi is built at a cost of Rs 206 crores. The Jal Marg Vikas project (JMVP) is being implemented with the technical assistance and investment support of the World Bank, at an estimated cost of Rs. 5,369 crores on a 50:50 sharing basis between Government of India and the World Bank.
The multi-modal terminal is a part of the Central government's Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP). The project aims the development of the strect between river Ganga and Varanasi for the navigation of large vessels.
Making a strong pitch for development at a poll rally in Chhattisgarh, he said that the state would have never been able to achieve the growth under Congress which it has under the BJP-led government. The PM hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi for questioning the government’s demonetisation move, saying the “mother-son duo” was out on bail and “those out on bail should not give a certificate to Modi”.
The prime minister will be laying foundation stones for a Drivers’ Training Institute for Varanasi district, a heliport in Ramnagar, a raised footpath on BHU Road etc. His announcements may also include a proposal for a meeting hall at Varanasi Circuit House.
Prime Minister Modi, who was in Chhattisgarh for a poll rally on Monday morning, will be flying to his constituency Varanasi for inaugurating and laying foundation stones of a number of projects. He will be accompanied by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Satyapal Singh.
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Two highway projects and one inland waterway project to be a part of the Jal Marg Vikas Project in PM Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi. A sewage treatment plant to come at Dimapur.