Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, soon after his arrival in the city on Friday, will dedicate AIIMS Guwahati and three other medical colleges to the nation. Prior to it, PM Modi in presence of Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union health & family welfare minister Mansukh L. Mandaviya with other dignitaries, will inspect the newly built campus of the AIIMS, a first in northeast India.
Modi will virtually lay the foundation stone of Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute (AAHII) at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati where the facility to leverage advanced technologies to transform medical science will be available. He will launch ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ campaign by distributing Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) cards to beneficiaries. Modi is also scheduled to attend the closing function of Gauhati High Court’s platinum jubilee celebrations at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra.
Later at Sarusajai stadium, Modi will preside over a public function and witness a colourful Bihu dance to be participated by more than ten thousand performers in a single venue. It has been organized to globally showcase the colourful folk dance as a mascot of cultural identity of Assamese people. Modi will also lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation a number of development projects including commissioning of a 500 TPD Menthol plant in Namrup, foundation stone of Palashbari- Sualkuchi bridge on Brahmaputra along with five railway projects.
Mentionable is that operationalization of AIIMS Guwahati, foundation stone of which was laid by Modi himself in May 2017, will mark a momentous occasion for Assam as well as the entire region. Built at a cost of over Rs 1120 crores, the state-of-the-art hospital has the capacity of 750 (including 30 Ayush) beds. This hospital will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students every year.
Three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar, which are waiting to be opened by Modi, have been built at the cost of Rs 615 crore, Rs 600 crore and Rs 535 crore respectively. Each medical college has an attached 500 bedded teaching hospitals with OPD/ IPD and emergency services along with ICU, OT and diagnostic facilities. Each will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students.
PM Modi to witness mega Bihu dance featuring over 10,000 performers on 14 April
