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PM Modi distributes appointment letters to over 71,000 recruits under ‘Rozgar Mela’

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As part of the government’s ‘Rozgar Mela’ (employment fair), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday distributed over 71,000 appointment letters to new recruits via video conferencing.

Physical copies of appointment letters were handed over at 45 locations across the country, except Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh where the Model Code of Conduct is in force.

The Prime Minister’s Office has said the drive is a step towards fulfilling his commitment to according highest priority to employment generation, and it is expected to be a catalyst in creating more jobs and providing meaningful opportunities to the youth for their empowerment and participation in national development directly.

In October, appointment letters were handed over to 75,000 people.

Modi had in June asked various government departments and ministries to undertake the recruitment of 10 lakh people on a “mission mode” in the next year and a half.

Modi on Tuesday also launched the Karmayogi Prarambh module.

The module is an online orientation course for all new appointees in various government departments. It will include a code of conduct for government servants, workplace ethics and integrity, human resource policies and other benefits and allowances that will help them to get acclimatised to the policies and transition smoothly into the new roles.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit three states today, inaugurates airport in Arunachal Pradesh

KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)

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Modi kickstarted his packed schedule with a visit to Arunachal Pradesh in the morning, where he inaugurated the state’s first greenfield airport, about 25 km from the capital city of Itanagar. Located at Hollongi, the Donyi Polo airport is expected to boost connectivity, trade and tourism in the state. The airport was developed at a cost of Rs 640 crore and will start the operation of commercial flights on November 28.

The inauguration of this airport is a strong reply to those who claimed that the foundation stone for the project was laid because of the upcoming elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Modi said during the inauguration. He said development cannot be linked to “politics and elections”.

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PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the Donyi Polo airport before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.

“Right now, I’m here where the sun rises in Arunachal Pradesh and in the evening, I will be there where the sun sets. In the middle I will visit Kashi as well,” Modi said, emphasising that he works for the development of the country 24 hours a day.

In Arunachal Pradesh, PM Modi also dedicated the 600 MW Kameng hydropower station to the nation. The government developed the Kameng hydropower project at a cost of over Rs 8,450 crore. The power station spreads over an area of more than 80 km in the West Kameng district.

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju, who is a Member of Parliament from the state, and chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu were present at the inauguration event.

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From Arunachal Pradesh, Modi will fly to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi where he will flag off the month-long ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’ at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). The programme will reflect on the spirit of ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’. Two top academic institutions – IIT and BHU – are implementing the programme which will be attended by more than 2,500 delegates from Tamil Nadu.

In the evening, PM Modi will fly to his home state of Gujarat to campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections. He will address an election rally in Valsad today evening and stay the night there.

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The two-phase elections in Gujarat will be conducted on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes will take place on December 8.

Modi is expected to visit the famous Somnath Temple around 10 am on Sunday, November 20. He is scheduled to address four rallies in the Saurashtra region at Veraval, Dhorarji, Amreli and Botad on Sunday. He will halt at the Raj Bhawan in Ahmedabad that day.

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PM Modi likely to visit Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh on Oct 27-28

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh later this month as part of his tour of the North-Eastern states.

The Prime Minister will inaugurate the houses built under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and a few other projects during his visit to Tripura, news agency PTI quoted Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha as saying in Agartala. Tripura has sanctioned 1.60 lakh houses under the PMAY scheme during the 2021-22 financial year.

While PM Modi’s itinerary was yet to be finalised, Saha said the PM is scheduled to visit the two states on October 27 or 28. “If he goes to Arunachal Pradesh first, he will come here on the 28th. If he comes to Tripura first, he will come here on the 27th, and will go to Arunachal later,” PTI quoted Saha as saying.

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In Tripura, the PM will hold a public rally and lay the foundation stones of some projects. Tripura is set to hold Assembly elections early next year.

In Arunachal Pradesh, the Prime Minister is likely to inaugurate the Donyi Polo Airport in Itanagar.

Officials said Chief Minister Pema Khandu had recently met PM Modi in New Delhi and asked him to inaugurate the airport and the 600 MW capacity Kameng hydroelectric power project in the state, news agency IANS reported.

With a 2,300-metre runway, Donyi Polo will be the first airport in the state to have the capacity to land big aircraft. The airport covers an area of 4,100 sqm and is equipped with all the modern facilities for passengers. The Airports Authority of India spent Rs 650 crores to develop the airport and boost air connectivity to the state. On October 18, an Airbus A320 of budget carrier IndiGo successfully completed a test landing at the Donyi Polo airport.

The Kameng hydroelectric project, executed by state-owned North East Electric Power Corporation Ltd, is the largest of its kind in the Northeast. The project was developed at an estimated cost of around Rs 8,000 crores.

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PM Modi to distribute PMJAY-MA Yojana Ayushman cards in Gujarat today

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kickstart the distribution of PMJAY-MA Yojana Ayushman cards in Gujarat today to ensure beneficiaries receive coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year for primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation.

PM Modi will attend the programme via video conference at 4 pm. He will also interact with the beneficiaries, a statement by the government said. The programme, organised in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar, will be attended by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will also participate in the event virtually, while state Health Minister Rushikesh Patel will be present at the programme, news agency PTI reported.

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Integration of two schemes

As the chief minister of Gujarat, PM Modi introduced the Mukhyamantri Amrutam (MA) scheme in 2012. The aim of the scheme was to provide healthcare facilities to the economically weaker sections and protect them from the high cost of medical treatment and illness.

In 2014, the MA Yojana scheme was extended to cover families with an annual income of Rs 4 lakh. It was later extended to other groups and rebranded as the Mukhyamantri Amrutam Vatsalya (MAV) Yojana.

Following the launch of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the Gujarat government integrated the MA / MAV Yojana with the AB-PMJAY in 2019. The beneficiaries of the MA/MAV scheme and AB-PMJAY are now eligible for the PMJAY-MA cards.

PVC Ayushman cards

PM Modi will kickstart the distribution of these cards today after which 50 lakh PVC (made of polyvinyl chloride material) Ayushman cards will be distributed among the beneficiaries across the state. The distribution will be done by the National Health Authority empanelled agencies after doing e-KYC of beneficiaries.

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Since the integration of the two schemes, the state has issued PMJAY-MA cards to 1.58 crore beneficiaries in Gujarat. From September 2021 till now, the state has doled out more than 5 million cards and freshly printed Ayushman PVC cards will be available to these beneficiaries, the state said.

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New Vande Bharat train launched: Reach Delhi from Chandigarh in less than 3 hours

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The new Vande Bharat train flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Una in Himachal Pradesh to New Delhi will reduce the travel time between the national capital and Chandigarh to less than three hours. PM Modi flagged off the fourth Vande Bharat Express from Amb Andaura station in Una district on Thursday, October 13.

According to Indian Railways officials, the new Vande Bharat train is an advanced version of the previous trains. Being much lighter the train is capable of reaching higher speeds within a short duration. The train can reach 0 to 100 kilometres per hour speed within just 52 seconds.

The latest Vande Bharat Express will run six days a week except on Wednesdays. The train can pick up a maximum speed of 180 km an hour. It will halt at Ambala, Chandigarh, Anandpur Sahib and Una.

The Indian Railways is yet to announce the starting date of regular operations of the train and its fares.

The train will start from Amb Andaura at 1 pm and reach Chandigarh at 3.35 pm. From Chandigarh, it will travel to New Delhi station and reach the capital city at 6.25 pm. This will reduce the travel time between Chandigarh and Delhi by half an hour.

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At present, the Shatabdi Express takes about three and a half hours to travel from Chandigarh to Delhi.

The Vande Bharat Express train will take about five and a half hours to complete the entire journey from the origin station to Delhi.

On the reverse route, the train will depart from New Delhi station at 5.50 am and reach Una at 10.34 am before completing its journey at Amb Andaura at 11.05 am.

At present, one Vande Bharat train runs on the Delhi-Katra (Jammu) route. Two other trains operate on Delhi-Varanasi and Gandhinagar-Mumbai routes.

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E-auction for PM Modi mementoes closes, K Srikanth’s badminton racquet gets highest bid at Rs 51 lakh

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PM Modi to inaugurate first phase of the Rs 856-crore Shri Mahakal Lok corridor in Ujjain

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the Rs 856-crore ‘Shri Mahakal Lok’ (corridor) in Ujjain city on Tuesday, October 10, news agency PTI quoted Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra as saying. He will also address a public meeting in the city.

Stretching over 900 metres, the ‘Mahakal Lok’ corridor is billed as one of the largest such corridors in India, located around 200 km from the state capital Bhopal.

The state is preparing a grand event for the inauguration of the corridor, PTI quoted an official as saying.

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On Sunday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state ministers and other officials visited the Mahakal Lok and reviewed the preparations for the grand event. The chief minister oversaw the dress rehearsal of the various cultural performances that have been organised to welcome Modi. The cultural programmes will be held in the corridor premises, from Nandi Dwar to the temple, Outlook reported.

Singer Kailash Kher is expected to sing a song dedicated to Lord Shiva, the resident deity of the ancient Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain, on an inaugural day.

The corridor spreads around the old Rudrasagar Lake, which has been revived as part of the ancient Mahakaleshwar Temple redevelopment project.  The Mahakaleshwar Temple is one of the 12 ‘jyotirlingas’ in the country which attracts a large number of devotees throughout the year.

The major highlights of the Mahakal Lok corridor are going to be two grand gateways — Nandi Dwar and Pinaki Dwar. The complex will be adorned with fountains, a colonnade with 108 ornate pillars made of sandstones, and a running panel with more than 50 murals depicting stories from Shiv Puran.

The first phase of the project has been developed at Rs 316 crores.

Work on the Mahakal temple complex was planned in 2017. The expansion project has been undertaken in two phases. The government will complete the work on the second phase in 2023-24, AIR reported.

The government has brought sandstones from Bansi Paharpur in Rajasthan to build the structures in the corridor. Most of the artisans and craftsmen came from Rajasthan, Gujarat and Odisha to work on chiselling and embellishing raw stones into aesthetic pillars and panels.

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To ensure the safety of visitors, the corridor has placed CCTV cameras and public address systems at regular intervals. The public address system will be used to make announcements for crowd management. It will also play devotional songs for the public.

Apart from this, the temple corridor complex will also have an integrated control and command centre which will monitor security arrangements in the complex.

According to Ashish Kumar Pathak, chief executive officer of Ujjain Smart City, the project may not be able to restore the ancientness of the Mahakaleshwar Temple, it hopes to “re-evoke that glory through old, aesthetic architecture”.

Horticultural species mentioned in Abhigyan Shakuntalam by Kalidas have been planted in the corridor.

Pedestrians will walk on cobbled stone paths. The project will have a huge pavilion called the Triveni Mandapam with a fountain that holds a sculpture of Lord Shiva at the centre.

There will be around 190 sculptures highlighting the various forms of Lord Shiva, and other deities, in the lakefront of the corridor.

After the completion of the mega project, the temple complex area will expand from 2.87 ha earlier to 47 ha. This will also enhance the holding capacity of the temple complex significantly.

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PM Modi to launch projects worth Rs 29,000 crores during his two-day visit to Gujarat

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be embarking on a two-day trip to his home state of Gujarat on September 29 and 30. The visit will entail the prime minister laying the foundation stones and inaugurating several projects across the state. PM Modi will inaugurate various development projects worth around Rs 29,000 crores.

“PM to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development projects worth around Rs 29,000 crores in programmes spread across Surat, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad and Ambaji,” the Prime Minister’s office said in a press release.

PM Modi will first make his way to the city of Surat where he will be inaugurating various projects worth more than Rs 3,400 crores. The projects include water supply projects, drainage projects, Phase I of DREAM City, Biodiversity Park and as well as other works such as public infrastructure, heritage restoration, city bus / BRTS infrastructure, and electric vehicle infrastructure.

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The prime minister would then head to Bhavnagar to inaugurate projects worth around Rs 5,200 crores. These projects include World’s First CNG Terminal and the brownfield port, along with the Regional Science Centre in Bhavnagar among others.

Heading to Ahmedabad, PM Modi will open the 36th National Games in Narendra Modi Stadium in the city. Some of the important projects that the PM will inaugurate include the Phase-I of the Ahmedabad Metro project and the Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai.

Finally, the prime minister will head over to Ambaji for inaugurating another Rs 7,200 crore worth of projects.

This will be the second visit of PM Modi to his home state in just over a month. He attended many programmes in Ahmedabad, Bhuj and Gandhinagar during his last visit on August 26-27. The PM’s visit comes just months ahead of the western state heading to state assembly elections.

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From cheetahs to logistics policy, PM Modi’s birthday is packed with events, speeches

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Madhya Pradesh on his birthday on September 17 and will attend four important events covering diverse sectors such as wildlife and environment, skills and youth development, women empowerment, and next-generation infrastructure.

First, the Prime Minister will visit Kuno National Park to release cheetahs arriving from Namibia as part of the government’s efforts to revitalise and diversify the country’s wildlife and habitat. Cheetahs, which were declared extinct in India in 1952, will be reintroduced into the Indian territory after decades.

The Prime Minister will address a women’s self-help groups conference in Sheopur’s Karahal later. More than one lakh women in Karahal are expected to attend the event. The women SHGs are promoted under the Pandit Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission.

According to a report by All India Radio, there are over 5,000 self-help groups in the Sheopur district and more than 70,000 women are associated with them. Most of these women are eager to meet the Prime Minister and believe he will give a new identity to their work in India as well as abroad.

On September 11, Union Forest Minister Bhupendra Yadav along with Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took stock of the preparations for the Prime Minister’s proposed visit to Karahal on September 17.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also address students at the first-ever convocation ceremony from ITIs on the occasion of Vishwakarma Jayanti, which is also celebrated on September 17, PTI reported quoting officials. Around 40 lakh students are expected to be part of this programme.

In the evening, the PM will unveil the National Logistics Policy, which is aimed at promoting the seamless movement of goods across India. PM Modi will also deliver a speech at the occasion.

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This Delhi restaurant is serving special “56 inch thali” on PM Modi’s birthday

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To celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 72nd birthday in a unique way, a restaurant in Delhi is planning to offer a special thali and name it “56inch Modi Ji” thali.

ARDOR 2.1 restaurant in Connaught Place will present a thali with 56 items and the customers will have the option of choosing vegetarian or non-vegetarian options.

Sumit Kalara, the owner of the restaurant, said he came up with the idea as he wanted to gift the prime minister, whom he respects very much, something unique on his birthday.

“We want to gift him (Modi) this thali and want him to come here and eat. But due to security reasons, we can’t do that, so this is for all of his fans who love him a lot,” ANI quoted Kalara as saying.

ARDOR 2.1 will also give customers a chance to win rewards up to Rs 8.5 lakh with the special thali. “If any of the two from a couple finishes this thali in 40 minutes we will give them Rs 8.5 lakh award,” Kalara said.

One lucky couple visiting the restaurant between September 17 and 26 and ordering this thali will also get the opportunity to win an all-expenses paid trip to Kedarnath – one of the favourite destinations of the prime minister, he added.

Last year, the restaurant also had a vegetarian Modi thali, priced at Rs 2,250 plus taxes, and a non-vegetarian version priced at Rs 2,550 plus taxes. The vegetarian thali comprised favourites such as Kashmiri dum aloo, paneer lababdar, malai kofta, dal tadka and a variety of breads along with raita and beverages such as lassi. The non-vegetarian platter came with lamb and chicken dishes as well as green vegetables, paneer, rice, mixed breads, and dessert, South China Morning Post reported. The restaurant has not mentioned if there will be any changes this year, in terms of dishes and price.

This year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced strict instructions to refrain from cake-cutting and other such rituals to mark the prime minister’s birthday. The saffron party will be organising Sewa Pakhwada (a fortnight of service) from his birthday on September 17 to Gandhi Jayanti on October 2. The party will organise various social programmes during those days, including blood donation camps, health screenings, tree plantations and campaigns for Swachh Bharat and the need of water conservation.

In an election rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur in 2014, the prime minister was quoted as saying that a “56-inch chest” was required to turn Uttar Pradesh into Gujarat.

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