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Modi to inaugurate development projects in Dantewada today

Modi to inaugurate development projects in Dantewada today

India Blooms News Service | | 09 May 2015, 10:44 am
Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, May 9 (IBNS) Visiting the Maoist hotbed of Dantewada district for the first time after assuming office Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate on Saturday two projects worth Rs. 24,000 crore.

Reports said Modi will be the first Prime Minister after Rajiv Gandhi to visit the region to inaugurate development projects- a steel plant in Dantewada's Dilmili and the second phase of a 140 km railway line from Raoghat to Jagdalpur.

Other prime ministers since  Gandhi have visited the Bastar region that includes Dantewada district, but for election campaigns.

Protesting  Modi's visit, the Maoists on Friday felled a tree to block a road, put up posters registering their protest, and hung effigies of Modi and Chief Minister Raman Singh.

According to official reports, more than  15,000 security officials have been deployed for Modi's visit. The road which  Modi will take is being sanitized.

Dantewada has been a witness to a series of Maoist attacks over the past one decade, the worst being the 2010 offensive in which 76 CRPF jawans were killed.

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