Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Chandikhol in Odisha’s Jajpur district on Tuesday and inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of projects worth more than Rs 1,10,600 crore relating to sectors including oil & gas, railways, road, and atomic energy.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and senior BJP leaders, including Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Ashwini Vaishnav, are expected to attend the Prime Minister’s programme today.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to arrive in Bhubaneswar at around 3:30 pm today and leave for Chandikhol by an IAF helicopter.
The Prime Minister will address a public meeting at Benapur in Jajpur district. A temporary helipad has also been constructed at Benapur.
According to Inspector General of Police, Central Range, Ashish Singh, over 3000 police personnel are being deployed in some or other way in Bhubaneswar and Chandikhol for the Prime Minister’s security. Both areas will be under security cover with different verticals of officials engaged in different duties.
The Prime Minister has no official programme in Bhubaneswar, the police will set up a special route lining up to Raj Bhawan, and carcade will be done as per a contingency measure. Six Additional DCPs, 10 ACPs, 19 Inspectors, 69 other officers, and 15 platoons of police force will be pressed into service for the Prime Minister’s visit.
At Chandikhol, the Prime Minister will inaugurate IOCL’s mono ethylene glycol project in Paradip refinery, 0.6 MMTPA LPG import facility at Paradip, five MLD capacity seawater desalination plants at Odisha Sands Complex of IREL(I) Ltd, a CONCOR container depot in Kalinga Nagar, a new train between Puri and Anand Vihar (New Delhi) via Kendujhargarh station, and first passenger train service on Haridaspur – Paradip rail route.
