PM Narendra Modi
RAJKOT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Kutch and lay foundation stone of several development projects on Tuesday. His visit to Kutch will be third in his home state – Gujarat - in the last three months during the Covid-19 induced pandemic.
Significantly, at a time when farmers protest against centre’s new farm laws will enter day 20 at Delhi’s Singhu border, the PM will meet a group of progressive farmers of Kutch including some native of Punjab who are engaged in agriculture activities at Kutch border.
Modi will lay foundation stone of a desalination plant, a hybrid renewable energy plant and fully automated milk processing and packaging plant of Sarhad Dairy.
The five companies will install solar and wind power generation infrastructure and an energy storage zone on 72,600 hectares of land near Khavda on Indo-Pakistan border. The hybrid zone spread over 49,600 hectare will have total generating capacity of 24,800 MW, while a proposed exclusive wind park zone spread over 23,000 hectares will have a minimum generation capacity of 3,000 MW.
The PM added, “This hybrid renewable energy park is as big as the country of Singapore and Baharin. You can imagine now how big this is going to be. It will be larger area than any big city of India… It will create employment opportunities for about one lakh crore people and youth of Kutch will benefit from it.”
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