New projects worth Rs 8568 crore for Ayodhya soon: Adityanath
LUCKNOW : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday announced that 17 projects worth Rs 138 crore for Ayodhya have already been completed and soon new projects worth Rs 8568 crore will be launched detailed project report of which is being prepared.
CM added that work related with 54 projects of over Rs 3136 was going on at a rapid pace in Ayodhya.
The CM also offered prayer at makeshift Ram temple at Ram Janmabhoomi and worshipped model of Ram Mandir.
Adityanath was in Ayodhya to launch PM free food grain distribution scheme which coincides with completion of one year of ‘bhumi pujan’ of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
The CM handed over free food grain to 10 beneficiaries at the event organised at fair price shop at Vasudev ghat, Ayodhya. Around 400 BPL card holders received free food grain from this fair price shop.
Adityanath virtually joined PM Narendra Modi at the free food grain distribution event from Ayodhya.
Addressing the gathering after the event, the CM said: “Around 15 crore people in Uttar Pradesh will benefit from this scheme of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana.”
Commenting on development projects in Ayodhya, the CM said: “In Ayodhya, 17 projects of Rs 138 crore have already been completed. Soon, new projects of Rs 8568 crore for Ayodhya will be launched. The DPR of these projects has been completed.”
He also pointed out that 54 projects of over Rs 3136 were being rolled out at present in Ayodhya at rapid pace.
DEHRADUN: The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Jal police and local police on Thursday resumed a search operation to trace three tourists, including two women, from Mumbai, who were washed away in the fast flow of swelled Ganga in Rishikesh on Wednesday. Till the filing of this report, the joint team failed to locate them.
Kamal Mohan Singh Bhandari, in charge of Muni-ki-Reti police station in Rishikesh, said as the flow in the Ganga was quite fast, the search team couldn’t trace them downstream. “The search operation which resumed on Thursday morning will be stopped in the evening and resumed on Friday morning”, he said.
Giving details of the incident, Bhandari said a group of five people, including three women, had come from Mumbai on August 1 and were staying at a hotel near the Ganga.
“Three of them - Malroy Dante, Apoorva Kelkar and Madhushi Khursange, all aged 21, entered the Ganga waters for a swim around 2.30 pm on Wednesday. They got washed away in the fast flow in the Ganga due to heavy rainfall upstream for the last few days.
“Two others, who had come with them, Karan Mishra and Nisha Goswami, informed us about the incident and gave us contact details of the families of their washed away friends. We have informed their families,” he said.
Bhandari said the team of SDRF, local police and Jal police started search operation in the Ganga downstream soon after receiving information on Wednesday afternoon.