PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate multiple developmental projects worth more than INR 4500 crore

DIMAPUR — Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi will inaugurate multiple developmental projects in rail and road sectors, worth more than INR 4500 crore in Siliguri, West Bengal on Saturday.

An update from NF Railway said the projects include Eklakhi – Balurghat section; Barsoi – Radhikapur section; Raninagar Jalpaiguri – Haldibari section; Siliguri – Aluabari section via Bagdogra and Siliguri – Sivok – Alipurduar Jn. – Samuktala (including Alipurduar Jn. – New Coochbehar) section. 

The PM will also dedicate other important railway projects including doubling of railway line in Manigram – Nimtita section and automatic block signaling in Ambari Falakata – Aluabari including electronic Interlocking in New Jalpaiguri, it said, adding that a new passenger train service between Siliguri and Radhikapur will also be flagged off.

An INR 3,100 crore worth National Highway projects — four-lane Ghospukur – Dhupguri Section of NH 27 and four-lane Islampur Bypass on NH 27 – in West Bengal will also inaugurated.

It went on to state that Modi will dedicate two railway projects in Assam — doubling of Dhupdhara – Chhyagaon section and ew Bongaigaon – Sorbhog section – which were taken up at a cost of INR 807 crore and 521 crore respectively.