Few National games in Goa…
On Thursday, 26 October 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scheme in Maharashtra aimed at benefitting more than 86 lakh farmers.
The project cost is approximately over Rs. 7,500 crores.
Later on, he will travel to Goa to inaugurate the 37th National Games.
PM Modi will begin his Maharashtra tour by offering prayers at Shri Saibaba temple in Shirdi and inaugurating its new 'darshan queue complex', as per an official statement.
He will perform "Jal Pujan" of Nilwande Dam.
Later he will dedicate a canal network of the dam to the nation.
The PM will attend a public program as well in Shirdi to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects of Rs. 7,500 crores in sectors like health, rail, road, and oil and gas.
The new 'darshan queue complex' in Shirdi is a state-of-the-art modern mega building envisaged to provide comfortable waiting areas for devotees, the statement said.
It will have several waiting halls with a cumulative seating capacity of more than 10,000 devotees.
Its foundation stone was laid by the prime minister in October 2018.
The 85 km canal network will benefit 182 villages by facilitating pipe distribution networks of water. The idea of Nilwande Dam was first conceived in 1970. It is being developed at a cost of about Rs. 5,177 crores, the statement said.
Edited By: Arusha Farooq
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