India’s development was possible due to political stability: PM Modi

Launches Rlys projects worth `5,000 cr in Gujarat, promises boost to tourism.

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, PM Narendra Modi and state BJP chief C R Paatil in Mehsana on Monday. (Express Photo)

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Railways will play an important role in the development of industries and tourism in the north Gujarat region, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mehsana Monday as he inaugurated railway projects worth Rs 5,130 crore. Listing down a number of initiatives of the state and Central governments, the PM emphasised that development of Gujarat and India was possible only because of the political stability.

The projects unveiled by Modi on Monday include two in Mehsana and Ahmedabad districts, a section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor between new Sanand and new Bhandu, and two connecting lines of 77 kms and 24 kms. It also included a project of the Gujarat Railway Infrastructure Development Corporation to install a 29.65-km railway line between Katosan and Bechraji in Mehsana.

“A dedicated freight corridor between Ahmedabad and Mehsana is going to be a revolutionary step as it will increase the connectivity with ports of Pipavav, Porbandar, Jamnagar… It will benefit farmers, industrialists and cattle-rearers, which indeed, will lead to greater possibility of industrial expansion in the region. It will boost the prospect of North Gujarat becoming a logistic hub and storage centre,” Modi said as he addressed a public gathering at Dabhoda village near his native town of Vadnagar in Mehsana.

The railway line between Viramgam and Samakhiyali has also been expanded into two tracks that will include districts like Ahmedabad, Surendranagar, Morbi, and Rajkot.

In all, Modi inaugurated or laid the foundation stone for developmental projects worth around Rs 5,950 crore in the North Gujarat region.

The Prime Minister also said that work on 2,500 kms of the dedicated freight corridor from East to West has been completed. Apart from the railway projects, Modi also inaugurated or laid foundations tone of projects worth Rs 830 crore of departments like water resources, water supply, roads & buildings and urban development.

Citing the potential of North Gujarat, Modi said Vadnagar is going to be a major tourism hub of the region. Vadnagar, he said, is India’s second ‘avinashi nagar’ (a town that has never been destroyed), after Kashi. “The Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu rail line is going to change the fortune (of the region),” he said.

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