Jangala (Bijapur): Prime Minister Narendra
Modi inaugurated the first health centre under the Ayushman Bharat scheme here on
Saturday, 14th April 2018.
He also
visited Jangala Development Hub, which is situated in a panchayat that has
emerged as a model. He interacted with local ‘Champions of Change’ in this Left
Wing Extremism-affected district, especially post the launch of the
Aspirational District programme on January 5.
Internet scheme : He inaugurated the
first phase of the Bastar Internet scheme under which a 40,000-km network of
fibre-optics cables would be spread across seven districts of the tribal
region. The districts are Bijapur, Narayanpur, Bastar, Kanker, Kondagaon, Sukma
and Dantewada.
Mr. Modi, the
first Prime Minister to visit Bijapur, also inaugurated a new rail line and a
passenger train between Gudum and Bhanupratapur, bringing north Bastar region
on the rail network. This is the Prime Minister’s fourth visit to Chhattisgarh, where the Assembly elections are due later this year. He had visited Dantewada in May 2015, Naya Raipur and Rajnandgaon in February 2016 and Naya Raipur in November 2016.
Mr. Modi also inaugurated bank branches in seven villages and visited a rural BPO centre developed under the India BPO promotion scheme. The BPO centre is provided Internet link by the Bastar Internet scheme.
Road projects: He laid the foundation for road and bridge
projects worth over ₹1,700 crore.
Chhattisgarh
Chief Minister Raman Singh and Health Minister J.P. Nadda were also present.
Under
Ayushman Bharat, the government will open 1.5 lakh health and wellness centres
by 2022, which will be equipped to treat a host of diseases, including blood
pressure, diabetes, cancer and old-age illness. Also under the scheme, the
government has prepared the contours of the National Health Protection Scheme
and the work is on to finalise parameters for identifying beneficiaries and
hospital entitlement. On January 5, Mr. Modi asked officials to devote these
coming three months to developing these less-developed districts.
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