: India has become center point to worlds desires, says PM Modi #IndiaNEWS #Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has observed that at a time when several countries were going through

India has become center point to worlds desires, says PM Modi #IndiaNEWS #Andhra Pradesh
Visakhapatnam: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has observed that at a time when several countries were going through difficulties, with some of them thrown into crisis and faced shortage of essential commodities, India was marching ahead in development, making the world look up and take notice.
Addressing a mammoth public meeting attended by an estimated two lakh people at the Andhra University College of Engineering grounds here on Saturday morning after launching developmental projects worth over Rs. 10,740 crore, he said that it was because India was reaching new heights after overcoming many challenges through ideas and thought processes.
We are aiming at comprehensive development through developing infrastructure to usher in a new India. We are ahead in development of railways, roads and ports in multi-development mode. Now every policy in India is aimed at raising the standard of living of the common people, he said, and added that free rice was being supplied to the poor for the past two and a half years and the farmers given Rs. 6,000.
Recalling that he had visited Andhra Pradesh a few months ago to participate in the birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader Alluri Sitarama Raju, Modi commended the people of Andhra Pradesh who were friendly and had proved their mettle in medical, trade and technology areas and earned laurels world-wide. Visakhapatnam city was special as it had trade ties with West Asia and up to Rome one thousand years ago and even today the port was a major hub for international trade, he observed.
Today is a memorable day for Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with projects worth over Rs. 10,000 crore dedicated to the nation. We are redeveloping the Visakhapatnam railway station as well as modernising the fishing harbour in the city. The projects today would help the development of Visakhapatnam and Andhra Pradesh, he pointed out.
The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for five projects on the day renovation of Visakhapatnam railway station at a cost of Rs. 460 crore, construction works of the six-lane Visakhapatnam-Raipur greenfield economic corridor with Rs. 3,778 crore, improvement of port road between Sheela Nagar and Convent Junction in the city at a cost of Rs. 566 crore, upgradation and modernisation of Visakhapatnam fishing harbour with Rs. 152 crore and the 745 km.
GAIL natural gas pipeline project from Srikakulam to Angul worth Rs. 2,658 crore. Besides, he inaugurated and dedicated to the nation the projects of upgradation of Pathapatnam-Narasannapeta road on the National Highway laid at a cost of Rs. 211 crore and the ONGC U field Onshore facilities of Krishna-Godavari Deep water block project of Rs.

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