Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a programme in Darrang district of Assam on September 14, 2025. Photo: X/@narendramodi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (September 14, 2025) laid the foundation stones for health and infrastructure projects worth ₹6,300 crore at Mangaldoi in Assam’s Darrang district.
He launched the construction of Darrang Medical College and Hospital, along with a nursing college and a GNM school.
The combined investment in these healthcare projects is worth ₹570 crore, officials said.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stones for the 2.9 km-long Narengi-Kuruwa bridge with an estimated cost of ₹1,200 crore and the 118.5 km-long Guwahati Ring Road project, connecting Kamrup and Darrang districts in Assam and Ri Bhoi in Meghalaya.
The cost for the Ring Road project was estimated at ₹4,530 crore.
The Prime Minister will, later in the day, inaugurate the newly constructed over ₹5000-crore bamboo-based ethanol plant and the ₹7,230-crore Petro Fluidised Catalytic Cracker Unit at the Numaligarh Refinery in Golaghat district.
Mr. Modi had arrived in Assam on Saturday (September 13, 2025) evening and attended Bharat Ratna awardee Bhupen Hazarika’s birth centenary celebrations.
Published – September 14, 2025 12:13 pm IST
