He said the Balasore station in the state has been designed on the theme of Jagannath temple (File)
Bhubaneswar:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday unveiled 73 railway infrastructure projects worth Rs 2,320 crore in Odisha and said the redeveloped Balasore station has been designed on the theme of Jagannath temple.
Under the ‘Amrit Bharat Station Scheme’, twenty-one railway stations in the state will be redeveloped at a cost of Rs 900 crore and 52 road over bridges and road under bridges will be constructed at a cost of Rs 1,420 crore.
These are among the over 2,000 rail infrastructure projects worth about Rs 41,000 crore unveiled by the Prime Minister.
PM Modi expressed happiness that ‘Amrit Bharat’ stations will be symbols of both ‘development’ and ‘virasat’ (heritage).
He said that Balasore station in the state has been designed on the theme of Jagannath temple.
Among the other stations in the state to be developed are Sambalpur City, Jharsuguda Road, Titlagarh Junction, Rayagada, Koraput Junction, Jeypore, Paradeep, Bhadrak, Belpahar and Brajarajnagar.
Governor Raghuvar Das, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan attended the program from different places in the state.
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