New Delhi: Ahead of general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated 15 airport projects, including new terminals in Delhi and Lucknow, besides several infra projects, virtually from Azamagarh in Uttar Pradesh.
The Prime Minister inaugurated 12 new passenger terminals at Pune, Kolhapur, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Delhi, Lucknow, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Shravasti and Adampur airports. The projects have been developed at a cost of Rs 8,903 crore and will have a combined capacity to handle 6.15 crore passengers a year.
Modi also virtually inaugurated air facilities developed at a cost of around Rs 950 crore in Gwalior and Jabalpur of Madhya Pradesh.
He also laid the foundation stone for three new passenger buildings at Kadapa, Hubballi, and Belagavi airports. It would cost Rs 908 crore and will have combined passenger handling capacity 95 lakh per year.
Inaugurating the projects, the PM took a dig at opposition and said people in previous governments used to make announcements to deceive people. “Modi doosri mitti ka insaan hai,” he said and added, “They used to put up a plaque before elections and disappear after that, the leaders disappeared too.”
He further mentioned that the foundation stones laid in 2019, were not for elections. He called the inaugural projects the campaign of his journey for development. “I am running at a fast pace with the resolve to make the country a developed India by 2047 and I am also running the country at a fast pace,” he claimed.
Modi also inaugurated several other infra projects, including Light House Project (LHP) in Lucknow and Ranchi under which more than 2000 affordable flats have been built, 744 rural road projects, worth more than Rs 3,700 crore, constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in UP, and laid the foundation stone of multiple rail projects worth around Rs 8,200 crore.
