Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today visit Himachal Pradesh to lay the foundation stone for an All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) besides inaugurating a steel plant.
The Prime Minister's visit comes just ahead of the Assembly elections later this year.
Modi will lay the foundation stone for the AIIMS at Bilaspur. Union health minister JP Nadda, who is from Bilaspur, has been in the state for over a week to ensure the success of PM’s rally.
The 750-bed hospital is to be built at a cost of about Rs 1350 crore. The institute will, in addition to healthcare, provide medical education at the under-graduate and post-graduate level, besides nursing, according to a PMO statement.
The prime minister will also lay the foundation stone for an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Una.
He will also inaugurate a Steel Processing Unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), at Kandrori in Kangra, the statement said.
He will later address a public meeting.
Ahead of the visit, the Himachal Pradesh Congress on Monday accused the BJP of not fulfilling its poll promises and demanded a white paper about the government's performance at the Bilaspur rally.
