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PM Modi reaches Gujarat, to launch RO-RO ferry service

PM Modi reaches Gujarat, to launch RO-RO ferry service

| @indiablooms | 22 Oct 2017, 12:14 pm
Gandhinagar, Oct 22 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Gujarat on Sunday to launch various projects including the Rs. 615-crore 'roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro)' ferry service.

This is PM Modi's third visit to the state in a month, where assembly elections will be held soon.

At a public meeting in Ghogha, the Prime Minister will inaugurate Phase 1 of the RO RO (Roll on, Roll off) ferry service between Ghogha and Dahej.

This ferry service shall reduce the travel time between Ghogha in Saurashtra, and Dahej in South Gujarat, from about seven or eight hours, to just over an hour.

When fully operationalized, it will also enable movement of vehicles.

Modi will also travel in the maiden voyage of this service, from Ghogha to Dahej.

The Prime Minister shall also address the gathering at Dahej, after completion of the voyage.

Also at the public meeting in Ghogha, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Sarvottam Cattle Feed Plant of Shree Bhavnagar District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd.

From Dahej, Modi will travel to Vadodara.

At a public meeting there, he will dedicate to the nation, the Vadodara City Command Control Centre; the Waghodiya Regional Water Supply Scheme; and the New Head Office Building of the Bank of Baroda, at Vadodara.

The Prime Minister will hand over keys of houses to beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban, as well as Rural).

He will lay the Foundation Stones of several infrastructure and development projects, including an integrated transport hub, regional water supply schemes, housing projects, and a flyover.

He will also lay the foundation stone for the capacity expansion of the Mundra-Delhi petroleum product pipeline, and a greenfield marketing terminal project of HPCL, at Vadodara.

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