New Delhi, Sep 10 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation India’s second riverine Multi Modal terminal built at Sahibganj in Jharkhand on September 12.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the state of the art terminal through a two-way digital communication system at an event in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Minister of State for Shipping (Independent Charge) Mansukh Mandaviya will be present at Sahibganj, Jharkhand.
Built at a cost of Rs 290 crore in a record time of about two years, the Prime Minister himself had laid the foundation stone of IWAI’s Sahibganj multimodal terminal in April, 2017. This is the second of the three Multi Modal Terminals being constructed on river Ganga under Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP). Earlier, in November, 2018 Mr Modi had inaugurated the MMT at Varanasi.