PM Modi in Gujarat, to launch projects worth over ₹20,000 crore

PM to lay foundation stone for a new international centre of traditional medicine in Jamnagar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived on a three-day visit to his home State Gujarat where he will launch projects worth over ₹20,000 crore while laying foundation stone for a new international centre of traditional medicine in Jamnagar. 

After landing at the Ahmedabad airport, Mr. Modi drove to the newly set up command and control centre of the State Education department as part of reforms the State government had initiated to improve quality of education in primary schools. 

At the centre, the Prime Minister interacted with top officials and teachers about the new measures the government had launched to improve the standard of education across government schools. 

The Prime Minister’s visit to the centre assumes significance since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had targeted the Gujarat government over the standard of education in the State ahead of the Assembly polls in which the AAP was trying to become a third player in Gujarat’s polity. 

Recently, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia visited a few schools in Gujarat and challenged the State Education Minister Jitu Vaghani to have a public debate with him over the quality of education in the State-run schools in Delhi and Gujarat. 

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister will first visit Banaskantha to inaugurate a new dairy complex of Banas dairy at Deodar, a potato processing unit and community radio station of Banas dairy.  

He will also lay foundation stone for other projects of the dairy in the district before moving to Jamnagar where a new centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for traditional medicine is being set up.