PM to fulfill dreams of eastern UP on Tuesday: Yogi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be offering development projects worth about Rs 10,000 crore to eastern Uttar Pradesh on coming Tuesday.

The prime minister, during his visit to Gorakhpur, will inaugurate the Gorakhpur Fertiliser Factory worth Rs 8,603 crore, the first AIIMS of eastern UP to be built in Gorakhpur at a cost of Rs 1,011 crore and hi-tech lab of Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) at a cost of Rs 36 crore.

Asserting that December 7, 2021 would go down as a Golden Day in the history of Uttar Pradesh’s development, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while addressing a press conference in Gorakhpur on Sunday, said, “The arrival of Prime Minister Modi on December 7 in Gorakhpur will fulfill the dreams of eastern Uttar Pradesh, which had been neglected by the failures of the previous governments.”

The inauguration of three big projects by the prime minister is the biggest investment so far in the eastern Uttar Pradesh. The chief minister said that what was impossible for the opposition, Prime Minister Modi had made it possible.

“The prime minister has provided these projects for the welfare of farmers, women, youth and children, and for the uplift of the region in the wider public interest, whereas the opposition considered it to be a vote bank till now,” he added.

Attacking the previous governments, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the fertiliser factory of the Fertiliser Corporation of India (FCI) was closed in 1990 but no government paid attention to it which not only affected the lives of farmers but the development of the common citizens was also affected. He said after 26 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a new fertiliser factory in Gorakhpur in 2016.

The prime minister will be dedicating the fertiliser factory of Hindustan Fertilizers and Rasayan Limited to the nation on December 7. It will not only supply fertilisers and chemicals to the farmers on time but will also generate vast employment opportunities.

Castigating the previous governments, the chief minister said that earlier, flood and encephalitis had become the identity of eastern UP because no government paid attention towards the poor and helpless people. “In the last 40 years, over 50,000 children lost their lives due to encephalitis but our government has succeeded in controlling the Japanese Encephalitis by about 75 per cent and death figures by 95 per cent in the past three years,” he said.

Yogi also stated that this fatal disease, which had become a curse for eastern Uttar Pradesh, was today in the final stages of eradication and would soon see complete eradication.

On Tuesday, the prime minister will also inaugurate the AIIMS in the city where the people will get world class specialist medical facilities.

The chief minister said that for a long time there was no proper system for identification of vector-borne diseases like encephalitis, dengue, etc, due to which the samples were sent to Pune. But now a hi-tech lab has been set up in the BRD Medical College-located RMRC of the Indian Council of Medical Research. He said now advanced research on the viruses causing Encephalitis, black fever, Chikungunya, dengue and COVID-19 would be done here.

It is worth mentioning that the foundation stone of the lab was laid by the then Union health minister in 2018 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate it on December 7.

 Yogi said that along with eastern Uttar Pradesh, the large population of Bihar and Nepal would also be greatly benefited by the three projects that were going to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that more than Rs 8,600 crore had been spent on the construction of a fertiliser factory that was spread over 600 acres; Rs 1,011 crore on AIIMS built in 112 acres, and Rs 36 crore on the RMRC lab.

“These development projects will not only facilitate a large population, but will also provide a great deal of employment. The date of December 7 is going to prove to be an important date for the development of eastern Uttar Pradesh and the entire state,” the chief minister added.