Our Correspondent
Ferozepur, December 29
Dozens of JCBs, tractors and road rollers, besides other earth-moving machinery, have been pressed into service ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the border town on January 5 to prepare ground for laying the stone for a PGI satellite centre.
A team of senior officials from the PGI, Chandigarh, along with district officials and senior BJP leaders, including party’s state chief Ashwani Sharma and national vice-president Saudan Singh, today visited the proposed site where the PM is scheduled to arrive.
Modi will be addressing his first public rally in Punjab after scrapping of the controversial farm laws and to launch the much-awaited PGI satellite centre here, which has been hanging in abeyance for the past nine years.
The PGI centre was approved during the fag end of UPA-II in 2013, but it couldn’t take off as it remained mired in controversies over the selection and acquisition of land.
PM to lay stone of PGI satellite centre on Jan 5
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