Gorakhpur gets AIIMS, mega fertiliser plant & ICMR centre as PM’s booster shot to push growth in eastern UP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated three mega projects in Gorakhpur which include a new AIIMS spread across a sprawling 112 acres, a big fertiliser plant and an ICMR research centre, giving a booster shot to development in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The three ambitious projects have been set up with an investment of over Rs 9,600 crore and have been completed ahead of the UP assembly elections scheduled for early next year. Addressing a massive rally at Gorakhpur , the Prime Minister said that the BJP’s “double-engine” government which also works at twice the speed of others had succeeded in ending the long-wait for proper healthcare facilities by the people of eastern Uttar Pradesh. He said that patients from the region will now no longer have to travel to big cities for treatment as modern healthcare facilities were available at their doorstep. He pointed out that since many years after independence there was only one AIIMs in the country, but since the last 7 years