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PM Modi inaugurates Rs 830-crore projects in Singur, stresses Eastern India’s role in Viksit Bharat

Kolkata, Jan 18 (UNI)Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated, laid the foundation stone for, and flagged off multiple development projects worth over Rs 830 crore at a government programme in Singur, Hooghly, asserting that the development of eastern India is central to the vision of a Viksit Bharat.
Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said he had been in Malda the previous day and had now reached Hooghly, describing the two-day programme as a concrete step toward accelerating development in eastern India.
“Today West Bengal had received nearly half a dozen Amrit Bharat Express trains in the last 24 hours. Perhaps in the 100 years the state has not received so many trains in just 24 hours,” the Prime Minister said.
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