PM to visit HP today to lay foundation stone of AIIMS and IIIT

October 03, 2017 08:48

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Himachal Pradesh today to lay the foundation stone for an AIIMS and an IIIT besides inaugurating a steel plant.

Modi will lay the foundation stone for the AIIMS at Bilaspur.

The 750-bed hospital is to be built at a cost of about Rs 1350 crore and will, in addition to healthcare, provide medical education at the under-graduate and post-graduate level, besides nursing, according to a PMO statement.

The prime minister will also lay the foundation stone for an IIIT at Una.

He will also inaugurate a Steel Processing Unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, at Kandrori in Kangra, the statement said.

He will later address a public meeting.

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