Prime Minister Narendra Modi will perform pooja and darshan at Beyt Dwarka temple and then pay visits to the Sudarshan Setu and the Dwarkadhish Temple in Gujarat on Sunday morning.

During his tour in the State, the Prime Minister will dedicate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 4,150 crore in Dwarka.

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Mr Modi will visit AIIMS Rajkot and inaugurate, dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stones of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 48,100 crore at Race Course Ground, Rajkot.

The Sudarshan Setu connects Okha mainland and the Beyt Dwarka island, built at a cost of around Rs 980 crore. It is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the country with a length of around 2.32 km.

The Sudarshan Setu boasts a unique design, featuring a footpath adorned with verses from Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and images of Bhagwan Krishna on both sides. It has solar panels installed on the upper portions of the footpath, generating one megawatt of electricity.

This bridge will ease transportation and reduce the time of devotees travelling between Dwarka and Beyt Dwarka. Before the bridge’s construction, pilgrims had to rely on boat transport to reach Beyt Dwarka, off the coast of Dwarka. This iconic bridge will also serve as a major tourist attraction of Devbhumi Dwarka.

In Rajkot, the Prime Minister will attend a public function and inaugurate, dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stones of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 48,100 crore, encompassing sectors like health, road, rail, energy, petroleum and natural gas, tourism among others.

He will also dedicate to the nation five All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Rajkot (Gujarat), Bathinda (Punjab), Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh).

Mr Modi will also lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation more than 200 Health Care Infrastructure Projects worth more than Rs 11,500 crore across 23 States and Union Territories.

The projects include the Medical College of JIPMER at Karaikal, Puducherry, and the 300-bed Satellite Centre of Post Graduate Institute of Medical and Educational Research (PGIMER) in Sangrur, Punjab, among others.

He will inaugurate the National Centre for Aging in Chennai; a new Government Medical College in Purnia, Bihar; two field units of ICMR namely, the National Institute of Virology Kerala Unit, at Alappuzha, Kerala and the National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT): New Composite TB Research Facility, Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, among others.

The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of various health projects, including the 100-bed Satellite Centre of PGIMER at Ferozpur, Punjab; new Medical College building in RML Hospital, Delhi; Critical Care Block in RIMS, Imphal; Nursing Colleges at Koderma and Dumka in Jharkhand, among others.

In addition to these, under the National Health Mission and Prime Minister-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM), the Prime Minister will also inaugurate, dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of 115 projects.

He will also inaugurate the National Institute of Naturopathy named ‘Nisarg Gram’ at Pune. It comprises Naturopathy Medical College along with a 250-bed hospital.

During the event, the Prime Minister will inaugurate and dedicate to the nation 21 projects of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), worth around Rs 2,280 crore.

In a step to boost the production of renewable energy in the region, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of various renewable energy projects, including the 300 MW Bhuj-II Solar power project; Grid Connected 600 MW Solar PV Power project; Khavda Solar Power Project; 200 MW Dayapur-II Wind Energy Project, among others.

The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of the New Mundra- Panipat pipeline project worth over Rs 9,000 crore. The 1,194 km long Mundra- Panipat Pipeline with an installed capacity of 8.4 MMTPA was commissioned to transport crude oil from Mundra on the Gujarat coast to the Indian Oil’s refinery at Panipat in Haryana.