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  • UP: BJP staff lathi-charged all over protest over PM safety breach, SHO despatched to police traces

    By means of PTI

    SHAJAHANPUR: A gaggle of BJP staff who held a protest in Tilhar right here towards the safety breach all over Top Minister Narendra Modi’s Punjab consult with have been allegedly lathi-charged by way of police, following which the incharge of the native police station was once despatched to police traces. An investigation within the topic is underway, police officers mentioned.

    BJP’s Tilhar Nagar president Rajiv Rathore mentioned dozens of birthday celebration staff took out a torch procession on Thursday night time to protest the lapse within the top minister’s safety all over his consult with to Punjab.

    Because the procession reached Martyrs Kutir, police team of workers arrived there and began beating the BJP staff after enquiring in regards to the sloganeering, he alleged.

    BJP staff have been chased and thrashed by way of the police and it was once handiest when they all accumulated and staged a sit-in out of doors the native police station that high officials reached the spot, Rathore claimed.

    Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sanjeev Bajpai mentioned he reached the spot once he gained details about the incident.

    After taking note of all sides, the incharge of Tilhar police station, Ravindra Singh, was once got rid of. He has been despatched to police traces and the topic is being investigated, he mentioned. BJP MLA from Tilhar Roshan Lal Verma condemned the alleged police motion.

  • PM Modi to put basis stones of more than one building tasks in Punjab

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Top Minister Narendra Modi will discuss with Ferozepur in Punjab on Wednesday and lay the root stones of building tasks price over Rs 42,750 crore, together with the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra limited-access highway and a PGI satellite tv for pc centre, within the town.

    The tasks additionally come with four-laning of the Amritsar–Una segment, Mukerian-Talwara huge gauge railway line and two new clinical faculties at Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, the PMO stated on Monday.

    Modi’s discuss with assumes importance because the state is headed for meeting polls, and the BJP has joined palms with former leader minister Amarinder Singh and the Akali faction headed by means of Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa to tackle rival events.

    Forward of Modi’s discuss with, the PMO stated his constant endeavour to give a boost to connectivity around the nation has resulted in more than one nationwide freeway building tasks being taken up in Punjab.

    It has resulted in additional than doubling the overall duration of nationwide highways within the state from about 1,700 kilometre in 2014 to greater than 4,100 kilometres in 2021.

    In continuation of such efforts the root stone of 2 main highway corridors might be laid in Punjab, it stated.

    This may also be a step in opposition to pleasing the top minister’s imaginative and prescient to fortify accessibility to main non secular centres.

    The 669-km-long Delhi-Amritsar-Katra limited-access highway might be advanced at a price of about Rs 39,500 crore, and it is going to halve the trip time from Delhi to Amritsar and Delhi to Katra, the PMO stated.

    The greenfield limited-access highway will attach key Sikh non secular websites at Sultanpur Lodhi, Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor Sahib, Tarn Taran and the holy Hindu shrine of Vaishno Devi in Katra.

    The limited-access highway may even attach key financial centres like Ambala Chandigarh, Mohali, Sangrur, Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Kathua and Samba in Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

    The four-laning of Amritsar–Una segment might be accomplished at the price of round 1,700 crore.

    The 77-km-long segment is a part of the bigger Amritsar to Bhota hall spanning around the longitudinal expanse of northern Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, connecting 4 main nationwide highways, specifically Amritsar-Bhatinda-Jamnagar financial hall, Delhi-Amritsar-Katra limited-access highway, North-South hall and Kangra-Hamirpur-Bilaspur-Shimla hall.

    It’ll lend a hand in bettering the connectivity of spiritual websites at Ghoman, Shri Hargobindpur and Pulpukta The town (house to the well-known Gurudwara Pulpukta Sahib), the PMO stated.

    He’ll additionally lay the root stone of a brand new huge gauge railway line between Mukerian and Talwara of round 27 km in duration, to be constructed at a price of over Rs 410 crore.

    The railway line might be an extension of Nangal Dam-Daulatpur Chowk railway segment and can supply an all-weather manner of transportation within the space.

    This venture additionally holds strategic significance as it is going to serve instead path to Jammu and Kashmir, becoming a member of the present Jalandhar-Jammu Railway line at Mukerian.

    The venture will end up particularly really helpful for the folk of Hoshiarpur in Punjab and Una in Himachal Pradesh.

    It’ll reinforce tourism within the area and supply ease of connectivity to hill stations in addition to to puts of spiritual significance, the PMO stated.

    It added that in keeping with the top minister’s endeavour to offer global elegance clinical amenities around the nation, new clinical infrastructure tasks in 3 cities of Punjab might be laid.

    The 100 bedded PGI satellite tv for pc centre at Ferozepur might be constructed at a price of greater than Rs 490 crore.

    Two clinical faculties at Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur might be advanced at a price of round Rs 325 crore each and every and with a capability of about 100 seats.

    Those faculties were licensed in Section-III of the centrally backed scheme “established order of recent clinical faculties hooked up with district/referral hospitals”, the PMO stated.

    A complete of 3 clinical faculties were licensed for Punjab underneath this scheme, and the school licensed at SAS Nagar in Section-I is already useful, it stated.