MANGALDOI (ASSAM): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stones for a series of health and infrastructure projects worth ₹6,300 crore in Assam’s Darrang district.
At Mangaldoi, the PM launched the construction of Darrang Medical College and Hospital, along with a nursing college and a GNM school, involving an investment of ₹570 crore, officials said.
He also laid the foundation stone for the 2.9 km-long Narengi–Kuruwa bridge, estimated at ₹1,200 crore, and the ambitious 118.5 km-long Guwahati Ring Road project connecting Assam’s Kamrup and Darrang districts with Ri Bhoi in Meghalaya, at a cost of ₹4,530 crore.
Later in the day, Modi is scheduled to inaugurate two major projects in Golaghat district — a bamboo-based ethanol plant built at over ₹5,000 crore and the ₹7,230-crore Petro Fluidised Catalytic Cracker Unit at the Numaligarh Refinery.
The Prime Minister had arrived in Assam on Saturday evening and attended the birth centenary celebrations of Bharat Ratna Bhupen Hazarika.
