Image Source : PTI PM Modi launches 5 mega tasks in Assam value Rs 3,222 crore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday devoted to the nation Rs 3,222 crore 5 mega gasoline and oil-based tasks and schooling in Assam.
While talking at a formidable public gathering at Silapathar in japanese Assam’s Dhemaji district, the Prime Minister stated that the Centre and Assam authorities are working collectively for the all-round growth of the state and most welfare of the individuals. Asserting the necessity to proceed with the double engine of Centre and state authorities to expedite growth in Assam, he stated : “The Assam government is taking forward all sectors and would soon implement the national education policy whereby the local people will be able to get medical and engineering education in the local language.”
Modi stated : “Those who ruled for decades since Independence believed Dispur was too distant from Delhi. Dilli ab door nahi, aapke darwaaze par hai (Delhi is not faraway now, it stands at your doorstep. The earlier governments adopted a step-motherly approach to Assam’s north bank (of Brahmaputra River) and neglected connectivity, health, education, infrastructure and industry.”
While addressing the gathering Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan stated that Rs 95,000 crore will probably be invested in Assam’s gasoline and oil sector for the tasks initiated by the Prime Minister on Monday.
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Pradhan stated that the sooner Congress-led UPA authorities headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh regardless of him representing Assam within the Parliament, did nothing to utilise the gasoline and oil assets for the good thing about Assam and the nation.
The Prime Minister devoted the nation the INDMAX Unit at Indian Oil’s Bongaigaon Refinery, Oil India Limited’s Secondary Tank Farm at Madhuban in Dibrugarh district and a Gas Compressor Station at Hebeda Village (Makum) in Tinsukia district.
The INDMAX unit at Indian Oil’s Bongaigaon Refinery leverages the know-how developed indigenously by Indian Oil-R & D to supply the next LPG and high-Octane Gasoline yield from heavy feed shares. The unit will improve the Refinery’s crude processing capability from 2.35 MMTPA (million metric tonnes each year) to 2.7 MMTPA.
Its commissioning may also considerably improve LPG manufacturing from 50 TMT (thousand metric tonnes) to 257 TMT and the Motor Spirit (Petrol) manufacturing from 210 TMT to 533 TMT.
Oil India Limited’s Secondary Tank Farm has been constructed for protected storage of about 40,000 Kilo Litres of Crude Oil, and the separation of formation water from Wet Crude Oil. The Rs 490 crore mission may also have a Dehydration unit with an working capability of 10,000 Kilo Litres per day.
The Gas Compressor Station at Makum in Tinsukia district will improve the nation’s crude oil manufacturing capability by practically 16500 Metric Tonne each year. Built at Rs 132 Crore, the station contains 3 Low-Pressure Booster Compressors and three High-Pressure Lifter Compressors.
“These projects would usher in an era of energy security and prosperity and open bright avenues of opportunity for local youth. They are in line with the Prime Minister’s vision of “Purvodaya” to drive Eastern India’s socio-economic growth,” an official launch stated.
PM Modi additionally inaugurated the Dhemaji Engineering College and laid the muse stone for Sualkuchi Engineering College in Dhemaji district.
The Dhemaji Engineering College has been constructed on 276 bighas of land, at the price of about Rs 45 Crore. It is the seventh Government Engineering College within the state and can provide B.Tech programs in Civil, Mechanical and Computer Science. The Sualkuchi Engineering College, whose basis stone was laid, will probably be constructed on 116 bighas of land at a price of about Rs 55 crore.
Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and state Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma additionally spoke within the gatherings.
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