Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Chhattisgarh today, where he will inaugurate several projects, distribute laptops, certificates, cheques etc. to beneficiaries under various schemes and address a public meeting.
State elections are scheduled in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh later this year.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the Integrated Command and Control Centre in Naya Raipur Smart City. Then, he will be at the Bhilai Steel Plant, where he will inaugurate an expanded part of the plant. There, he will also lay the foundation stone for the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai. Also in the list is the unveiling of the phase II of Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BharatNet) – that looks at connecting gram panchayats with underground optical fibre network.
Other inauguration programmes include air services between Jagdalpur and Raipur.
