PM Modi inaugurates LPG pipeline and launches projects worth Rs 12,800 Cr in Bihar
In Bettiah, Bihar, Prime Minister Modi also inaugurated Indian Oil’s LPG bottling plant and storage terminal at Motihari, which would also act as a strategic supply point for exporting petroleum products to Nepal.
Bihar News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the 109-km Muzaffarpur-Motihari LPG pipeline of Indian oil as he unveiled development projects worth Rs 12,800 crore at Bettiah in West Champaran in Bihar.
Officials said the LPG pipeline will not only provide cleaner cooking fuel to the people of Bihar but also to neighboring Nepal. The Prime Minister also inaugurated Indian Oil’s LPG bottling plant and storage terminal at Motihari, which would also serve as a strategic supply point for export of petroleum products to Nepal, in addition to the eight districts of North Bihar.
PM Modi also laid the foundation stone of the city gas distribution project in East Champaran, West Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan and Deoria, and grain-based ethanol projects at HCPCL Biofuels Ltd facilities in Sugauli and Lauriya.
He also inaugurated the two lanes of Piprakothi-Motihari-Raxaul section of NH-28A and Sheohar-Sitamarhi section of NH-104. The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone for a six-lane cable bridge over the Ganga, parallel to the Digha-Sonepur rail/road bridge, and the four-lane Bakarpur Hat-Manikpur section of the NH-19 bypass.
Among the railway projects he inaugurated were the doubling of the 62 km line from Bapudham Motihari to Piprahan, and the gauge conversion of the Narkatiaganj-Gaunaha section.
Modi also laid the foundation stone for the doubling and electrification of the 96 km Gorakhpur Cantt Valmiki Nagar railway line and redevelopment of the Bettiah railway station.
He launched two new trains on Narkatiaganj-Gaunaha and Raxaul-Jogbani routes.
Governor Rajendra V Arlekar, Deputy CMs Samat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, and JD(U) State Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary were among those present at the programme.
Notably, however, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not present at the programme.
PM Modi rides Kolkata’s underwater metro
Earlier today, Prime Minister Modi traveled with school students in India’s first underwater metro train in Kolkata on Wednesday. Modi arrived at the Esplanade Metro station in the capital of West Bengal and was welcomed en masse by a large crowd amid chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Modi Modi’.
The Prime Minister inaugurated India’s first underwater metro tunnel, built in Calcutta, and later took a ride on the train along with some schoolchildren. Modi was seen interacting with school students and metro staff as they traveled in India’s first underwater metro train.
Prime Minister Modi will be on a three-day visit to states like Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar from March 4 to 6.
(With input from agencies)