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With BMC Polls round the corner, PM Modi announces Rs. 1.06 lakh crore infra projects for Mumbai
- by Webdesk
- 25 Dec 2016
PM Modi’s date with Mumbai was highly impactful, with him announcing Rs. 1.06 lakh crore worth of projects for Mumbai. The amount being spent by Centre is considered, by pollsters, as an attempt of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to influence the residents of Mumbai in the wake of forthcoming BMC polls.
However, the focus of the event was Shivaji Maharaj. The headline stealer event of the day was foundation laying ceremony of the Rs 3,600 crore Shivaji Maharaj Statue to be constructed in Arabian Sea, off the coast of Mumbai.
Modi along with Chhatrapati Shivaji’s descendants Udayan Raje Bhosale, Sambhaji Raje, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray travelled in a Coast Guard hovercraft to the proposed site for the Shivaji Memorial in the Arabian Sea.
He immersed water and soil collected by BJP workers from rivers across Maharashtra into the sea at the site and performed a jalpujan. CM Fadnavis later said that Shivaji Maharaj had performed jalpujan to lay the foundation of the Sindhudurg fort 352 years ago on December 24.
With Modi launching the Shivaji memorial project and kick-starting a host of projects for Mumbai, BJP workers have got a perfect launchpad for their campaign for the BMC elections which will be held next year.
The projects kickstarted by Modi yesterday were:
Rs 3,600 cr Chhatrapati Shivaji memorial
Rs 3,555 cr Quadrupling of 63-km Virar-Dahanu Rd
Rs 2618 cr Rail corridor of 28 km from Panvel to Karjat
Rs 428 cr Elevated rail corridor from Kalwa to Airoli
Rs 20,000 cr 48-km Bandra-Virar elevated corridor
Rs 15,000 cr 47-km CST-Panvel elevated corridor
Rs 9,000 cr 70-km Vasai-Diva-Panvel rail corridor
Rs 11k cr Trans Harbour Link
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