Ahead of Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra inauguration, prime minister Narendra Modi has reached Ayodhya to inaugurate prominent projects. PM Modi is all set to inaugurate the redeveloped Ayodhya railway station and flag off new Amrit Bharat trains and Vande Bharat trains.

At around 12:15 p.m., he will inaugurate the newly built Ayodhya’s Maharishi Valmiki International Airport. 

The prime minister will participate in a public programme around 1 p.m. where he will inaugurate, and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than ₹15,700 crore in the state.

These include projects worth about ₹11,100 crore for development of Ayodhya and its surrounding areas and projects worth about ₹4,600 crore related to other projects across Uttar Pradesh.

New Ayodhya airport

Phase 1 of the state-of-the-art airport is developed at a cost of more than ₹1450 crore. The airport’s terminal building will have an area of 6500 sq m, equipped to serve about 10 lakh passengers annually.

The facade of the terminal building depicts the temple architecture of the upcoming Ayodhya temple. The interiors of the terminal building are decorated with local art, paintings and murals depicting the life of lord Ram.

The terminal building of Ayodhya airport features insulated roofing system, LED lighting, rain water harvesting, water treatment plant, sewage treatment plant, solar power plant and many other such features have been provided to meet (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) GRIHA-5 star ratings. 

Ayodhya Dham railway station

Phase I of redeveloped Ayodhya railway station, known as Ayodhya Dham Junction railway station is developed at a cost of more than ₹240 cr.

The three-storey modern railway station building is equipped with lifts, escalators, food plazas, shops for puja needs, cloak rooms, child care rooms, and waiting halls. The station building will be ‘accessible for all’ and  ‘ Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) certified green station building’.

Train projects

PM Modi will flag off a new category of superfast passenger trains– the Amrit Bharat Express. The Amrit Bharat train is an LHB push pull train with non air-conditioned coaches.

This train has locomotives at both ends for better acceleration. It provides improved facilities for rail passengers including better designed seats, luggage rack, mobile charging point with suitable mobile holder, LED lights, CCTV, public information system, among others. The prime minister will also flag off six new Vande Bharat Trains today.

Two new Amrit Bharat trains- Darbhanga-Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Amrit Bharat Express and Malda Town-Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminus (Bengaluru) Amrit Bharat Express will be flagged off.

The PM will also flag off six new Vande Bharat Trains. These include Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Amritsar-Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Coimbatore-Bangalore Cantt Vande Bharat Express; Mangalore-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express; Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express and Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Vande Bharat Express.

Three railway projects worth ₹2300 crore  include the Rooma Chakeri-Chanderi third line project; Jaunpur-Tulsi Nagar, Akbarpur-Ayodhya, Sohawal-Patranga and Safdarganj-Rasauli sections of the Jaunpur-Ayodhya-Barabanki doubling project; and doubling and electrification project of the Malhaur-Daliganj railway section.

Civic infrastructure

To enable accessibility to the upcoming Shri Ram Mandir, four newly redeveloped, and widened roads will be inaugurated in Ayodhya – Rampath, Bhaktipath, Dharampath, and Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Path.

Foundation stone of new projects in Ayodhya

He will also lay the foundation stone of a greenfield township in Ayodhya being developed at a cost of more than ₹2,180 crore and Vashishtha Kunj Residential Scheme to be developed at a cost of about ₹300 crore.

(With inputs from IANS)

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