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India has now reached 5th position in the world in the last few years in solar power and is advancing fast, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi when inaugurating three key projects in Gujarat on 24 Oct 2020 through video conferencing.
In 2010 when the Solar Power Plant was inaugurated in Patan, nobody could have imagined that India would show the world the path for “One Sun, One World, One Grid”.
He noted that from power generation to transmission all the works were carried out in mission mode to improve the capacity in the state.
He launched the Kisan Suryodaya Yojana for providing 16 hours of power supply to farmers as well as inaugurated the Paediatric Heart Hospital attached with U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre and a Mobile Application for telecardiology at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad.
Kisan Suryodaya Yojana will give farmers 3 phase power supply from 5 AM to 9 PM and will bring a new dawn in their lives.
The Prime Minister also lauded the efforts of the Gujarat government for doing this work by preparing a completely new capacity of transmission, without affecting the other existing systems.
Under this scheme, about 3,500 circuit kilometers of new transmission lines will be laid in the next 2-3 years and will be implemented in more than a thousand villages in the coming days and most of these villages are in tribal-dominated areas.
He said it will change the lives of lakhs of farmers when entire Gujarat gets the power supply through this scheme.
He called on smaller organizations such as Panchayats to assist in setting up small solar plants on barren lands and run irrigation pumps on solar energy.
He noted that the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Center launched is one of the few hospitals in the country that has a world-class infrastructure as well as a modern health facility and would be India’s largest cardiac hospital.
The Institute is undergoing expansion at the cost of Rs.470 crores. The number of beds will increase from 450 to 1,251 after the completion of the expansion project. The Institute will also become the biggest single super speciality cardiac teaching institute in the country and one of the biggest single super speciality cardiac hospitals in the world.
The building is equipped with safety precautions like earthquake-proof construction, fire-fighting hydrant system and fire mist system. The research centre will house India’s first Advanced Cardiac ICU on Wheels, IABP, haemodialysis, ECMO etc. 14 operation centres and 7 cardiac catheterization labs will also be started at the institute.
Gujarat will once again be highlighted on the global tourism map with the inauguration of the Ropeway at Girnar. Initially, there will be 25-30 cabins, with a capacity of 8 people per cabin. A distance of 2.3-km will now be covered in just 7.5 minutes through the ropeway. In addition to this, the ropeway will also provide a scenic view of the lush green beauty surrounding the Girnar mountain. #projects #investment #health #infrastructure /fiinews.com
