As a gift to the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday has laid the foundation for two of the important projects —the nerve centre of the Purvanchal region, the revival of a long-defunct fertilizer plant and the setting up of an All India Institutes of Medical Sciences — in Gorakhpur.
However, Mr. Modi has remained silent on the recent controversy over the objectionable comments by his party leader against the BSP chief Mayawati even as he spoke of ushering a “Second Green Revolution” from east U.P.
Somewhere attacking the BSP and the SP, he had urged voters to reject “jativaad ka zeher (poison of the casteism)” and also “parivarvaad ka khel (the game of dynasty).” “Only vikaasvaad [pro-development] can do your good,” he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gorakhpur
The Union Cabinet has recently gave its approval to these two projects in the poll-bound State, which considers key to the economic, agrarian development and medical of Purvanchal.
The AIIMS hospital has now been a long-held demand of the region, as the area is plagued by the deadly and also epidemic Japanese Encephalitis — over 50,000 children have estimated to have died due to this disease in the region in the last four decades, as per the five-time Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath.
This project of the new AIIMS, would come under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), is projected to be around Rs 1,011 crore.
The state-of-the-art hospital will be having a capacity of 750 beds, which will also include 30 super-specialty beds, and will be spread over 112 acres.
This hospital would be directly benefiting 14 districts in east U.P. and five in neighboring Bihar.
